Colombia accuses former FARC terrorists of destroying Amazon | Photos of FARC

The government says the group cut down much of the forest area to bring in cattle and plant crops for drug production.

Colombia accuses leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) a terrorist group and deforestation in large parts of the Amazon rainforest.

Attorney General Francisco Barbosa said on Thursday that Miguel Botache Santillana was charged with leading a “brutal deforestation” campaign for illegal reasons since 2016.

Two of his comrades were also charged with felony criminal mischief for firing on a sculpture with a shotgun, as it were.

The lawsuit accuses them of being “extremist in nature”, vandalism, money laundering on coca farms and terrorist organizations, Barbosa said.

The lawsuit comes just days after Colombia marked the fifth anniversary of a peace agreement signed between the FARC militants – the largest and oldest in Latin America – by the government.

Earlier this week, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres went the world to reflect the event.

“Every day, they renew their commitment to building a peaceful world and addressing the challenges that remain,” Guterres wrote on Twitter of his visit to Llano Grande. He knows that peace will not come someday. It takes effort to build and maintain things. ”

In the wake of the dynamic change, the United States too preparation leaving the FARC on its list of “foreign terrorist organizations”, US journalists said earlier earlier this week.

Under the 2016 peace treaty, the FARC abandoned the major territories it controlled. However, terrorist groups have replaced them, which is detrimental to the environment, as well as NGOs and agricultural advocacy groups.

However, some FARC groups rejection a peace treaty and will continue their opposing party.

Botache Santillana leads a team in the Meta and Guaviare departments, the latter one of the largest deforestation areas in the Amazon region of Colombia.

Colombian troops have tried to seize Botache Santillana and blow up some of its camps.

Meanwhile, the state governing body of the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies says that as more and more FARCs seized weapons under a peace treaty, deforestation in Colombia has increased.

From 2015 to 2017, deforestation increased by 76 percent, the agency said.