Colombia: FARC dissidents kidnap three soldiers

Three Colombian soldiers were kidnapped in the department of Cauca (southwest) by a group of dissidents from the FARCreported this Monday the General Command of the Military Forces.

The kidnapping occurred on Sunday when “the military, who were on leave, were traveling in a public service vehicle” along a highway between the municipalities of El Tambo and Patía, said that institution in a statement.

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The hostages were identified as soldiers Carlos Andrés Ocoró Mejía, Cristian Murillo Murillo and José Arcadio Epiayu Urania, who are part of the Rapid Deployment Force No. 2 and the Pegaso Stabilization and Consolidation Operational Command.

According to the information, “individuals in civilian clothes who carried firearms identified themselves as members of the residual armed group ‘Carlos Patiño,'” which is part of the dissidents of the FARC who did not accept the peace agreement of November 2016 or took up arms again, were the perpetrators of the kidnapping.

Last week there were other cases of kidnapping of Army soldiers in different regions of the country.

One of the cases was that of the soldier Luis Domingo Morelos, kidnapped in the municipality of Santa Rosa, in the department of Bolívar (north), a fact that the Army attributed to the FARC dissidence known as E37.

The other kidnapping, also attributed to the “Carlos Patiño” front, was that of second sergeant Juan Gabriel Chichanoi Miramag, in Cauca.

The new kidnappings occur two weeks after the Colombian president, Gustavo Petroannounced a bilateral ceasefire with several illegal armed groups, including the Central General Staff of the FARC dissidents, of which the “Carlos Patiño” front is a part, which supposedly wants to negotiate peace with the Government.

Source: Elcomercio

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