NewsLatin AmericaThe paramilitary leader of the AUC, Giraldo Serna, asks Petro to collaborate in his total peace project

The paramilitary leader of the AUC, Giraldo Serna, asks Petro to collaborate in his total peace project

The paramilitary leader of the ‘Resistencia Tayrona’ bloc, of the extinct United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), Hernan Giraldo Serna, alias ‘El Taladro’, has asked President Gustavo Petro by letter to collaborate in his total peace project, recalling that since who is in prison has collaborated “to clarify many cases”.

“I put my name forward to support a peace process and I’m not doing it for economic, political or legal interests,” said Giraldo Serna, one of the names of the armed process in Colombia, not only because of drug trafficking and murders, but also for being the biggest sexual predator of the internal conflict.

“Since 2006 I have been deprived of my liberty and they extradited me to the United States. I have put my face up and I am answering for my mistakes that have served to clarify many cases within the framework of the justice and peace law,” he has sought to apologize.

“My commitment is to peace, truth, reparation and non-repetition. I am aware of what a peace process implies and the difficulties that must be overcome for everything to happen; I have nothing to lose, I have no wealth because They have taken everything from me and I only want to return to the Sierra to work for a long-awaited peace,” he assured.

He has also used his letter to Petro to deny that he is behind a political project, stressing that he is nothing more than a “farmer” who knows nothing about politics. “My action neither before nor now has been politics”, he has explained.

‘Taladro’, also known as ‘El Viejo’, has been serving a sentence for 17 years after taking advantage of the demobilization process of former President Alvaro Uribe’s paramilitary groups and going through a US prison for drug trafficking, a common denominator among those who participated in the armed conflict.

Giraldo Serna, considered the biggest rapist in the armed conflict in Colombia, has also been convicted of the rape of more than 200 women, most of them minors, some only girls. The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that some of these attacks took place in the prisons where he spent before being extradited to the United States.

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