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### Viewing cable 06BOGOTA2554, FARC DEMOBILIZATION OF 70: LANDMARK EVENT OR

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06BOGOTA2554 | 2006-03-22 19:07 | 2011-02-24 06:06 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy Bogota
Appears in these articles: http://www.elespectador.com/wikileaks

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    VZCZCXYZ0000
    PP RUEHWEB

    DE RUEHBO #2554/01 0811948
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 221948Z MAR 06
    FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3387
    INFO RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 6672
    RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS PRIORITY 7419
    RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ MAR 7847
    RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA PRIORITY 3446
    RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY 4096
    RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY

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    id: 57696
    date: 3/22/2006 19:48
    refid: 06BOGOTA2554
    origin: Embassy Bogota
    classification: UNCLASSIFIED
    destination:
    header:
    VZCZCXYZ0000
    PP RUEHWEB

    DE RUEHBO #2554/01 0811948
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 221948Z MAR 06
    FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3387
    INFO RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 6672
    RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS PRIORITY 7419
    RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ MAR 7847
    RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA PRIORITY 3446
    RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY 4096
    RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY

    ----------------- header ends ----------------

    UNCLAS BOGOTA 002554

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PTER PGOV MOPS MARR CO
    SUBJECT: FARC DEMOBILIZATION OF 70: LANDMARK EVENT OR
    TELENOVELA?

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    Summary
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    ¶1. On March 7 the GOC announced the demobilization of 70 FARC
    guerillas and an airplane. As the largest FARC defection in
    Colombia,s 40-year conflict, symbolically occurring in the
    insurgency's birthplace, the event was initially hailed as
    historic. However, within days questions emerged which remain
    unanswered about the veracity of the demobilization.  End
    Summary.

    ---------------------------------
    GOC Announces FARC Demobilization
    ---------------------------------

    ¶2. On March 7, Peace Commissioner Restrepo and Army Commander
    General Montoya presided over the demobilization of 70 FARC
    guerillas said to be of the Cacica la Gaitana company of the
    FARC,s Joint Central Command in Tolima. This was seen as a
    core FARC unit located near where the insurgency was founded
    and said to have regular contact with the ideological leader
    and Secretariat member Alfonso Cano. Early reports stated
    that, along with their weapons, the guerillas surrendered a
    plane which had been acquired for use in their erstwhile
    demilitarized zone (despeje). Later in the day, Polcouns
    crossed paths with Restrepo at the Ministry of Defense.
    Restrepo was warmly congratulated by senior military
    officials passing by.

    ----------------------
    Repudiation and Regret
    ----------------------

    ¶3. In a communique presented at the demobilization ceremony,
    the unit's political commander, alias "Biofilo," repudiated
    the conflict, which he said had exhausted his country and
    converted it into a vast cemetery. His unit was laying down
    its arms, he said, in regard for thousands of innocent
    victims of "doubtful interests and wretched practices."
    Biofilo stated that the unit renounced war but not its
    Leninist and Bolivarian principles. The war, he said, had
    degraded those founding goals and diminished the rebels as
    human beings. Detailing cases of FARC atrocities against
    civilians, including some ostensibly attributed to the army,
    he rebuked the FARC for exercising only coercive power and no
    constructive influence over the territories it has dominated,
    alienating itself from the very population it had set out to
    defend. Biofilo closed by expressing his support for the
    peace negotiations recently entered into by the Marxist
    guerilla organization the ELN.

    ---------------------
    Questions Surface....
    ---------------------

    ¶4. Inaccurate statements made by the Army subsequently cast
    doubt on the event. First, it emerged that the unit,s
    leader, alias Saldana, had been a prisoner in state custody
    for two years, and FARC sources pointed to another man, alias
    Marlon (still at large), as the unit,s true commander. The
    Army admitted these facts but stressed that Saldana was a
    leader who convinced the others to surrender. Second, it was
    revealed that the plane had been in government custody since
    ¶2003. Saldana claimed, however, that the plane did belong to
    his company and had been intended for use on an assault on
    Bogota. President Uribe, who had highlighted the original
    plane story to the press, was obliged to issue a retraction.

    --------------------
    .... and Doubt Grows
    --------------------

    ¶5. As journalists probed further into the story, further
    contradictions emerged. It was revealed that Saldana was a
    FARC deserter who was captured and imprisoned in 2004. To
    shorten his sentence, he contacted Restrepo offering to turn
    informer and bring in his comrades. His men claim to belong
    to a unit which they say was created (conveniently) near the
    time of Saldana's offer. The existence of the Gaitana unit
    not only has been denied by the FARC, but also is not
    recognized by the Colombian police, the Departmental
    government, or even the Army's own records of the FARC. A
    journalist visiting the demobilized in detention reported
    that some seemed to be genuine guerillas, others hangers-on.
    Conflicting versions of the unit's area of operation planted

    the notion that this could be a hodgepodge of deserters
    assembled into a unit for the purpose of demobilization. At
    the event, the men wore clean new uniforms and appeared
    fresh, while claiming to have hiked long distances to arrive
    at the site.

    -------
    Comment
    -------

    ¶6. Despite all of the holes in the official story, discontent
    in FARC ranks could in truth be growing. Due to the confusion
    over details, however, the significance of the event remains
    unclear.
    WOOD

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