A dead soldier and six injured leave attacks with explosives within the framework of operations.
After 16 days of confinement for the fighting between the ELN and the Gulf clan in southern Bolívar, a situation that affects more than 5,000 inhabitants, The army announced the deployment of several balls to resume control and normalize mobility for the population.
“We are recovering, without pause and with determination, mobility in southern Bolívar,” He assured Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez.
In addition, the official He rejected drones attack that in the last three days left a dead soldiers and six more injured.
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“We reject strongly The use of drones for these posters to attack our civil population and the public force: That is a war crime that tries to paralyze and unfold the residents of southern Bolívar, ”he said.
He also stressed that the Navy, Air Force, Police and Army have been in the territory for weeks, holding offensive operations To recover road corridors, restore public order and protect the lives of our citizens.
“Although great mobility of the civilian population has been recovered between Santa Rosa and Canelos, drone attacks, mainly by the Eln poster, They try to shortage and isolate the population to advance their criminal greed of illegal mining control, ”said the minister.
In that sense, he recalled that the civilian population must be outside the conflict. “In addition to deploying all the necessary abilities of the public force to neutralize the threat, We firmly condemn this attack and notice: who use explosives to intimidate and press communities are not rebellious, they are terrorists, ”he said.
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He also denounced that the ELN, the dissidents and the Gulf clan, They are committing war crimes when trying to submit communities through fear, blocking humanitarian corridors and generating shortage to sow hunger in women, children and older adults.
“This is not resistance: it is a barbarism that must be denounced by all humanitarian organisms and be persecuted before all judicial, national and international instances,” he said.
Source: Integrated information system
