A dissident faction of the FARC opposed a group which controls the road traffic roads in the southwest of the country, on the border with the equator.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Clashes between a dissident faction of the FARC guerrilla warfare and another armed group left 18 dead in southwest Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, the Colombian Ombudsman announced on Sunday.
Saturday, “18 men were killed in a confrontation between the self -proclaimed” Comandos de la Frontera “and the first front” Carolina Ramírez “of the FARC dissidents”, according to a bulletin published by the public organization of rights surveillance humans, without specifying whether they are civilian or military victims.
The confrontations broke out in a rural area of the municipality of Puerto Guzmán, some 60 kilometers from the Ecuadorian border. The Ombudsman asked “the presence of the security forces and the public prosecutor in the area”.
negotiations
The “Carolina Ramirez” front belongs to the greatest faction that withdrew from the peace pact having disarmed the Farc in 2017, according to the local press.
The organization had contacts with representatives of President Gustavo Petro as part of a preliminary phase in peace talks and had announced that it would reduce attacks on the security forces in order to reach a cease -the bilateral-feus in Colombia.
The “Comandos de la Frontera”, they are an armed group which controls the road traffic roads in the jungle on the border with the equator.