“Where do you think the CAD weapons are going to point? It is absolutely dangerous, they are playing with fire,” said Vargas, for whom the law will turn these committees into paramilitary and parapolice groups that are difficult to control.
Congress enacted the law last week at insistence, after the government refused to ratify it.
According to the provision, the entry of these groups into the security system implies, among other things, that they may receive weapons, not only from the State, but also from individuals.
“As they can receive weapons from the Government, from donations, or from anyone, then drug traffickers can set up their self-defense committee and make their military organization to confront (the State) and have control over the territory. That is very dangerous,” reacted Defense Minister José Luis Gavidia.
“This law is trying to have self-defense committees anywhere, whether or not it is within the state of emergency, in any part of Peru,” added Gavidia, a retired rear admiral who did not indicate, however, what actions the government could take. to counter the norm.
According to media reports, Congress, which registers more than 80% popular rejection, approved the law without adequate studies, consultations or debates, while the Executive did not show much energy to confront it.
With the instrument, the CADs will be empowered to, among other activities, develop prevention actions against common crime, drug trafficking and terrorism, denounce corruption and flagrant crimes and support the recovery of stolen goods, illegal weapons, usurped land , drugs or chemical inputs.
Likewise, they will be able to deactivate gangs, assume the defense of the human rights of the family, elaborate internal regulations and participate in patrols together with the military or the police, while they will have the right to receive military training, have legal status and subsidies and have advice. in case of human rights complaints.
For former Peruvian Defense Minister Nuria Esparch, “Congress is extending the monopoly of violence beyond the Armed Forces and the Police.” “(The law) not only recognizes the existing Self-Defense Committees, but basically authorizes there to be more,” he criticized.
The concern of the experts lies in the influence that organized crime may have. For example, him Vraeman extensive jungle area of Peru where drug trafficking operates with protection from what was the last column of luminous pathcould be at the service of the mafias.
CADs are in practice an extension of the Peasant Roundsgroups that were born around 1976 in the department of Cajamarca to combat cattle theft and that later became an emblem of the successful civil struggle against the Shining Path, for which their actions were imitated in other areas.
But those organizations, of which the now president was the leader peter castlenot only oppose the new law, but are preparing to confront it because they consider that it threatens the autonomy of the original groups.
“We will shed blood if necessary”said the president of the Peasant Rounds of Peru, Valentín Sánchez, who demanded that Castillo prevent the imposition of the law and promised forceful action if that does not happen.
“With just a binza (whip made from a bull’s penis and wire) and a whistle, we have been controlling insecurity for years and providing support to the Police. We have never used firearms nor will we. This measure implies a serious danger for everyone,” added another Cajamarcan leader, Fernando Chuquilín.
To illustrate what can happen, Minister Gavidia mentioned to the press the example of neighboring Colombiawhere the self-defense groups promoted by the Government since the 1960s to combat the guerrillas became criminal organizations with great cruelty in their interventions.
Source: Ambito
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