An investigation by Human Rights Watch found that former guerrillas are waging a brutal campaign of violence in the port city of Tumaco, underpinned by booming coca production, a lack of basic infrastructure and disillusionment with peace. The homicide rate in Tumaco was four times higher than Colombia's national average in 2017 and ex-combatants with the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are believed responsible for much of the violence, the group said. Instead many ended up joining dissident factions of the guerrilla army and returning to combat. Violence is being used in Tumaco by the dissident guerrilla front and other armed criminal groups competing for territory in one of the nation's biggest coca growing regions, Vivanco said. Human Rights Watch documented 21 killings there, including that of a fisherman who was found shot to death with a sign on his chest that read "for thieving and snitching."

Source: Fox News December 14, 2018 00:33 UTC