A paramilitary group under the name of Los Rastrojos (The Stubble), threatened different NGOs of Human Rights in Colombia. The threats that circulated through the Internet, were dated April 10.They did an exhaustive and long process of investigation, they said in their communicated codified as No.003, to different organizations of human rights, associations of displaced people and unionists of the states of Nariño, Valle, Cauca, Putumayo, Risaralda, Quindío, Tolima, Caldas, Cundinamarca, Meta, Boyacá and Antioquia, according to their own declaration.
They declared to the Colombian public opinion that those organizations are related to guerrilla groups. Los rastrojos claim that those NGOs are allegedly defending the human rights.

The criminals conclude that the organizations must stop their subversive discourse in favor of the rights and ideologies of the Narco-terrorists of Farc and ELN and all their accomplices of the past and the present. They suggest that the activities of those NGOs are attacking the good and noble intentions of the high government in favor of peace.

If the said organizations do not obey their will, Los rastrojos will act without mercy and will return to what was in the 1990s.

The criminal intimidation enlisted several organizations and the name of different leaders with action in the Western states of Colombia, especially between Chocó and Nariño. They accuse theseorganizations of communist indoctrination. By contrast, they present themselves as a group fighting for the most needed sectors of the Colombian society. At the end, they end their threats from Some where in Colombia and the Valle del Cauca State.
Who are they?

A question like this can be dangerous in a country like Colombia. It is normally answered some decades and thousand of killed persons after their military successes.

As for now, it is possible to say that their main scenario are the Western region of Colombia and the Pacific, coming from the southern State of Nariño at the Ecuadorian border to the impoverished Chocó State to the Panama border. But it includes the Coffee Axes andAntioquia. As for Nariño, the unfortunate State became a new scenario of the long Colombian conflict. In the last years it is a target of ambitions for mafia and paramilitary groups, guerrilla and guns.
You can notice also that the Pacific Region from the Afro-Colombian port city of Tumaco to the Atrato Delta in Chocó, is the natural environment of several ethnic minorities of Afro-Colombians and indigenous, with thousands of hectares of indigenous shelters and jungle. The terrorist groups from left to right wings, are just fighting for this rather marginal territory of our country.

You can understand that the conflict has been sent to the borders and marginal areas of the countries, where the most vulnerable Colombians groups are living.
On 23 April the Police of the far in the north State of La Guajira arrested Einer Sandoval Madrid and Daimer Guzmán Flórez. They are accused of being members of Los rastrojos and were doing infiltrations in the region. They are also accused of extortion and selective killings.

The same day the Police of Antioquia arrested a man known by his criminal nickname, Picapiedra (Flintstones) and who was a former paramilitary that signed the peace agreements with the government. This Picapiedra was involved in a war against another group of criminals in the northern region of Antioquia, Caucasia. Picapiedra is accused of several assassinations and terrorists attacks with grenades and the training of sicarios for Los rastrojos and Los paisas.
The Administrative Department of Security (DAS) announced that it will follow the investigations over the threats of Los rastrojos to the Human Rights organizations’ defenders.

The same justice under threats

While criminals like Los rastrojos look to stop the human rights organizations, the judiciary branch of Antioquia declared to the public opinion that only in the region 27 judges of the Prosecutor were reported to get threats from criminals.
Luis Fernando Otálvaro Calle, president of the Association of Judicial Employees, said that the national government must work out the security for the administration of justice.

It is the situation in our country at the door of the new presidential elections. Let us wait more consistent political projects to fill the stubble with flowers.