Colombia / Former Guerrillas - The State Self Punishes the Surrendered Body, Proving the Illusion of Peace Through Disarmament

Event Baseline: Ninety-nine Colombian guerrilla fighters laid down their weapons in June under the Petro government's 'total peace' plan. After a hardline president took over, they now face legal limbo with no clear status or protection.

The fighters believed the narrative: put down the gun, and the war ends. They gave up their weapons and burned their uniforms. But the state's promise was only a temporary thought, not a structural change. The new political self sees them not as fellow citizens but as past enemies still carrying the mark of their former identity. The illusion of peace through disarmament is shattered because the underlying fragmentation, the 'us versus them', was never dissolved. The state only changes its mask; the fear of the other remains. The former guerrillas are now trapped between a past that defines them and a future that refuses them. This is the same error: thinking that symbolic gestures can end psychological division. The war will not end by exchanging rifles for paperwork. It ends only when the identity 'guerrilla' and 'state' are seen as false.