Officials from the Arauca Municipal Ombudsman reported that between January 9 and 10 there was a confrontation between the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). The acting deputy director of Human Rights Watch, Juan Pappier, asked that the Support Group, the Technical Secretariat of the Inter-Institutional Committee for Early Warnings (Ciprat), of the Ministry of the Interior be convened to prevent a new escalation of violence
At least 10 dead left a confrontation between the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the Colombian department of Arauca, on the border with Venezuela, where both maintain a territorial dispute.
The fighting took place on Monday and Tuesday in a rural area of Puerto Rondón. Officials of the Municipal Ombudsman told the news agency EFE that on January 9 and 10 there were combats between the dissidents of the FARC and the ELN in the area known as Marrero, specifically in the village of Lejanías.
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According to this version, the bodies “still remain in the area because no one has gone to pick them up, nor has the group itself done so” and the local authorities are waiting for support from the public forces to “enter the area to pick up those bodies.”
The ELN, which is in peace talks with the government, earlier this month rejected a six-month bilateral ceasefire announced by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, since that issue was not discussed at the talks that took place. takes place in Caracas.
On the eve of Christmas, the ELN declared a unilateral ceasefire during the year-end holiday season, which ended on January 2, but clarified that this truce was only with “the State Military and Police Forces,” which excluded other illegal armed groups with which it is in conflict, such as the FARC dissidents.
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