 In August 2011, the senator and victims’ rights leader Ivan Cepeda revealed that he was informed of a murder plot being planned against him by two state security prison guards.Between 1984 and 1994 Colombia suffered the genocide of a political party called the Patriotic Union (UP).The UP was born as a result of negotiations held in 1984 between the FARC, Colombia's oldest and largest guerrilla group, and the Colombian government that were to allow FARC members and supporters to follow an electoral path in order to advance their political objectives.