The Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation this Thursday to clarify the circumstances of the death of a 30-year-old Colombian man in an armed confrontation between the military and an alleged dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)as reported by the Ecuadorian Army.
«Through the Human Rights Directorate, the Prosecutor’s Office will open a prior investigation to determine the circumstances of the death of a person, on the night of February 14, in an alleged armed confrontation between the military and irregular forces«, reported the Ecuadorian Public Ministry.
Hours before, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Ecuador He reported that An Army patrol had an armed confrontation with an “irregular armed group” that it identified as an alleged dissident group of the FARC guerrilla, where a 30-year-old man was killed and two others, aged 27 and 19, respectively, were detained..
The confrontation occurred when the Army soldiers allegedly discovered a camp belonging to this group in the sector Alto Punino, from the Amazonian province of Orellanaknown to be one of the main enclaves of illegal mining in Ecuador.
Inside war
They also seized three 5.56 millimeter caliber assault rifles, a 9 millimeter caliber submachine gun, a 12 caliber carbine, two handmade carbines, two 9 millimeter pistols, nearly 1,400 bullets of different calibers and eleven magazines for rifles and pistols. .
Likewise, they seized three homemade explosive devices, two tactical saws, two bulletproof vests, a communication radio, eleven cell phones, a dagger and a motorcycle.
This episode occurred within the framework of “internal armed conflict” declared since the beginning of January by the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaagainst organized crime, whose gangs have come to be considered terrorist groups and non-state belligerent actors, mainly dedicated to drug trafficking.
Under this state of exception they are several human rights organizations that have denounced excesses of the forces of order within the prisons intervened by the Police and the Armed Forces to regain control of the prisons, many of them dominated by criminal gangs that have carried out a series of prison massacres since the beginning of 2020 with more than 450 prisoners murdered . EFE
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