Colombian Official Refuses to Say if Children Killed in Attack on Rebels:
Colombian Official Refuses to Say if Children Killed in Attack on Rebels. A huge number of young people in a rebel camp recently attacked by the army. But the Colombian Minister of Defense said on Sunday that there are no indications about children killed. In an interview with Radio Minister Diego Molano said. Local authorities and media reported that a few of those were murdered. Including a 9-year-old daughter who had failed to disclose the age of death on several occasions. In this interview, Mr. Molano described the facts as “illegitimate”.
In a nation marked by decades of violent domestic conflict. The charges came out quickly concerning the US-supported army, communist insurgents, leftist paramilitaries, and dominant drug cartels, who have often included child fighters and caused multiple civilian victims. Moreover, on Wednesday morning, in a military action aiming at an insurgent group headed by Miguel Botache, identified as Gentil Duarte. A former member of the largest guerrilla group in Colombia.
The fighting has not ended for many in Colombia:
However, in 2016, the FARC reached a peace agreement with the government that formally put an end to the two-party conflict. Yet some rebels, including Mr. Duarte. When the FARC retreated from vast stretches of land, other violent forces seized the battlefield between military. The fighting has not ended for many in Colombia.
President Iván Duque has come under increasing criticism that he is not doing enough to stop the violence in late 2019. His former defense minister, Guillermo Botero, fell after not disclosing that a military operation against a terrorist gang killed some children. Molano said the latest activity that has performed in the department of Guaviare on 2nd March came under international law during his radio interview.
However, he said we don’t care about young people, who didn’t know what they were doing. Moreover, he said it’s not the national army, nor these organizations. The remarks promptly led from different segments of Colombian society that the young people recruited by militant groups should view as victims rather than as offenders.
