FARC reveals details of 1995 assassination of legendary conservative leader
December 11, 2020
The former commander of the FARC‘s urban guerrillas testified before Colombia’s war crimes tribunal on Thursday over the 1995 assassination of legendary conservative leader Alvaro Gomez.
Senator Julian Gallo testified before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) two months after publicly admitting he ordered the unsolved murder of the late Conservative Party leader in Bogota.
The bombshell shell shattered hypotheses by the prosecution that was investigating former President Ernesto Samper (Liberal Party) and the military for allegedly ordering the assassination.
Attack against “backwards oligarchy”
According to Gallo, who commanded the FARC’s urban militias as “Carlos Antonio Lozada” at the time, the now-demobilized guerrillas had been wanting to kill Gomez for being a member of the “backwards oligarchy” they blamed for “having started a conflict that lasted for