The Colombian Minister of Protection, Ivan Velasquezassured this Tuesday that the one type of response that the Central Common Workers (EMC)dissident group of the FARCis to assault the civilian inhabitants and the authorities as a result of they don’t have any different means to confront the Army forces.
This was said by Velásquez in a press convention when referring to the assaults dedicated by the EMC in current days within the division of Cauca: one on Monday within the Morales municipality, which left 4 useless, and one other on Friday in Miranda, with two fatalities, together with a toddler.
“The one type of response that this group, primarily the Jaime Martínez entrance that’s answerable for these actions, the one type of expression – as a result of they don’t have the capability to maintain a confrontation with the Army Forces – is to resort to assaults in opposition to the inhabitants”assured Velásquez.
The Colombian Authorities assured that the EMC, a bunch that the minister referred to as a “drug trafficking group”, is rising its actions as a result of the Army Forces have additionally elevated operations in opposition to the group and in opposition to funds.
“The actions they’ve suffered not solely within the space of drug trafficking but additionally unlawful mining, have led them to extend prison actions and extra widespread extortion actions”famous Velásquez.
Terrorist assaults
This Monday, two law enforcement officials and two prisoners died who had been on the station of that establishment, which was harassed for 2 hours by members of a faction of the Central Common Workers (EMC), within the municipality of Morales, within the troubled division of Cauca.
Through the day, six individuals had been additionally injured by the detonation of a motorbike bomb at 6:15 native time (11:15 GMT) close to a lodge the place uniformed personnel are staying who’re “strengthening the safety of the municipality” of Jamundiwithin the division of Cauca’s Valley.
There was additionally harassment at a Police substation within the city of Robles, which is a part of Jamundí, managed with out main issues by the authorities.
Added to that is what occurred in Miranda, additionally in Cauca, final Friday the place a 67-year-old man and a toddler died in an assault with explosives.
Velásquez assured this Tuesday that the EMC seeks with these actions for the Authorities to revive the ceasefire, which the Authorities suspended in a number of departments exactly as a result of these assaults on the finish of final March.
In that sense, the minister mentioned emphatically: «No new ceasefire (to fireplace) shall be agreed with the EMC within the southwest. The assaults that this group has carried out in opposition to the civilian inhabitants take away any risk of a cessation..
As well as, the Authorities has elevated the variety of navy and police personnel within the space, with 500 extra, and is making ready to extend operations in opposition to finance, particularly in opposition to mining.
Divisions within the EMC
The EMC assaults have intensified in that area of the nation after final March the Authorities suspended the bilateral ceasefire within the departments of Nariño, Cauca’s Valley y Cauca because of the violence of that armed group in opposition to indigenous individuals and in opposition to the general public power.
In response, the Military has intensified its offensive operations in current months in Cauca, which has grow to be one of many obstacles within the peace negotiations between the Authorities and the EMC, and has managed, amongst different points, to get better 59 minors who had been illegally recruited by the group.
In the meantime, the Authorities considers that this group is split into two: the one which instructions ‘Iván Mordisco’ which operates within the heart, southwest and a part of the south of the nation and which incorporates essentially the most belligerent fronts such because the Dagoberto Ramos o Jaime Martinezand the one which operates in Magdalena Medio and Catatumbo and within the central-southern of the nation.
With the primary, who’s now not sitting on the negotiating desk, the Authorities has lifted the cessation and has elevated the confrontations, however with the second it desires to proceed negotiating in dialogues which can be slowed down. EFE (I)
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