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Security, as evidenced by two recent murders of pardoned FARC members, is not guaranteed for the 7.400 guerrillas who have been awaiting amnesty since July. The last case was reported by the FARC on September, 10. Just two days after his release, Luis Herminsul Guadil Hinestroza was gunned down in the Viento Libre neighbourhood of Tumaco, Nariño. National Police confirmed the identity of the murdered former FARC member. When asked about the motives, the answer was the standard one delivered in similar previous episodes: the Prosecutor's Office is already investigating. A FARC statement described the case as due to the current "paramilitary expansion".
What is particularly worrying is that this happened only 24 days after the assassination of Brutney Alfonso Avila Snak, a former guerrilla member who returned to civilian life in Arauca. The murder took place in a hamlet in Puerto Jordán, where he was attacked by two armed individuals on a motorcycle. Ávila was one of the pardoned former guerrilla members who had left the Transitional Normalization Zone in Filipinas (Arauca).
