Colombia Military Attack Kills 10 FARC Guerillas
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published March 03, 2021 | 08:20 AM
Bogota, March 3 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Mar, 2021 ) :A military bombing killed 10 guerrillas and injured three at a base of dissidents of the former FARC rebel group in southeast Colombia, official sources said Tuesday.
Defense Minister Diego Molano said on Twitter the military action "neutralized" 13 FARC dissidents under the command of a man who goes by the alias "Gentil Duarte." These dissidents have distanced themselves from Colombia's 2016 peace pact, which ended a half-century civil war and saw the FARC disarm the following year.
Molano did not say when the assault happened.
A source told AFP 10 died and three were wounded.
The bombing was conducted in the municipal area of Calamar in the jungle of southeastern Colombia, where former FARC dissidents still operate.
"These narco-criminals are responsible for the recruitment of minors, attacks against our public forces, kidnapping and illegal mining," said Molano.
He added the government will "not rest" until it finds Duarte, one of the most wanted rebel commanders in Colombia.
Last Friday, the country launched a 7,000-strong elite force to fight rebels financed by drug trafficking and other illegal activities.
It said the force would pursue members of the ELN -- the last active guerrilla group in Colombia -- as well as drug gangs and ex-FARC rebels who have abandoned the peace terms.
In December, the UN said the Colombian government had killed 244 former FARC fighters since the signing of the peace accords.
Colombia continues to battle a multi-faceted armed conflict involving leftist guerrillas, drug-traffickers and right-wing paramilitaries competing for control of the lucrative cocaine and illegal mineral extraction industries.
Victims of the violence tend to be former fighters, human rights activists and community leaders.
In February, President Ivan Duque accused Venezuela of "protecting" remaining guerillas.
His counterpart Nicolas Maduro responded that his country would "respond with force" if Colombia's new elite force or Duque "dared to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela."More than nine million people have died, disappeared or been displaced thanks to fighting against guerilla forces in Colombia since the 1960s.
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