Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered his country\u2019s ambassador to Egypt to verify the number of Colombians who have been killed in Sudan while allegedly fighting alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur.<\/p>\n
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Petro said: \u201cTurning our youth into commodities sold for death and sending them to fight in a war against Sudan\u2014a country that has done them no harm\u2014makes them targets for such operations.\u201d He accused those coordinating mercenary activities from within Colombia of betraying their oath to Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar.<\/p>\n
The president strongly condemned what he described as “mercenarism and the commodification of men for killing,\u201d calling it a form of human trafficking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have called for an urgent bill to ban mercenarism,\u201d Petro added. \u201cThis, too, is a form of human trafficking\u2014turning men into products for killing. They longed for war so much in Colombia that, when the conflict here subsided, they went searching for it abroad, even where no one had harmed us.\u201d<\/p>\n
He described those who recruit youth to fight in foreign wars as \u201cmurderers\u201d and \u201cghosts of death who have betrayed their oath to Bol\u00edvar,\u201d invoking the foundational ideals of the Colombian nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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