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At least two Colombian soldiers died during a combat between the Army and the dissidents of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in the southern department of Caquetá, in Colombiain which a criminal also died, the authorities reported this Sunday.
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The Army detailed in a statement that Everything happened in a rural area of the municipality of El Doncello, where the military confronted members of the “Rodrigo Cadete” structure. of the Central General Staff (EMC), the main dissidence of the former guerrilla.
The deceased soldiers are the Private Henry Anderson Muñoz Dazawho died at the scene, and the second lieutenant Andres Felipe Ochoa Morenowho suffered serious injuries and died while being evacuated by helicopter.
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After the fighting, The authorities seized war materiel and quartermaster that the deceased dissident had in his possessionwhich was made available to the competent authorities.
At the beginning of the month, the Government and the EMC announced that they had reached an agreement to set up a peace negotiating table.
The announcement came a month and a half after the government, which had already begun rapprochement with the EMC, to partially suspend the bilateral ceasefire with that dissidence in response to the murder of four indigenous minors who tried to escape after being forcibly recruited in the south of the country by the Carolina Ramírez Front, which is part of that group.
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The ceasefire between the government and the EMC, partially suspended, was announced by Colombian President Gustavo Petro shortly before midnight on December 31. and encompasses five armed groups included in its “total peace” program.
Those groups are the National Liberation Army (ELN), which ignored said agreement, although it later agreed to one that will enter into force on August 3; he EMC and the Second Marquetalia, both dissidents of the FARC; the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) and the Sierra Nevada Paramilitaries.
Source: Elcomercio
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