Colombian government says kidnapping of Luis Díaz’s father puts dialogue with the ELN at risk

The signs that point to the subversive group National Liberation Army (ELN) as responsible for father kidnapping of Liverpool football player Luis Diaz “puts in danger” the negotiation with this guerrilla, said this Thursday the Minister of the Interior of Colombia, Luis Fernando Velasco.

This Thursday the head of the Government delegation, Otty Patiño, mereported that the kidnapping of Luís Manuel Díaz It is Cilenis Marulandaparents of the Colombian striker, last Saturday in the city of Barrancas when they were traveling in their vehicle “It was perpetrated by a unit belonging to the ELN.”

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““An action like this puts the negotiation at risk.”Velasco said, in statements to Noticias Caracol, while in other media he stressed that this was a “violation of the ceasefire”.

“We demand that the ELN immediately place Mr. Luis Manuel Díaz, and we remind you that it is your sole responsibility to guarantee your life and integrity.”, asked Patiño, who also reminded the guerrillas that “kidnapping is a criminal practice, which violates International Humanitarian Law.”

Since August 3, the Government and the ELN have maintained a bilateral ceasefire in force for 180 days that prohibits any offensive action between the two parties and also all actions prohibited by IHL, which is why it is considered the taking of hostages – as it would be This case, since Díaz is a civilian, is a war crime.

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According to the protocols signed by both parties, any possible violation of the cessation must be reported as an “incident” to the Verification and Monitoring Table – made up of the Government, ELN, UN Verification Mission and the Catholic Church – and this, after carrying out checks , informs them at the dialogue table, which may decide to break the ceasefire.

In this sense, both Patiño and other members of the delegation have shown themselves to be measured with their words to pronounce on this issue that, failing to be verified by the Mechanism, could only become a violation of the cese, which in principle rigidly ends with the next year.

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Patiño is currently addressing the situation, according to another of the government’s negotiators, Senator Iván Cepeda, who stressed that “kidnapping is a criminal practice that openly violates IHL and that must not only be suspended, but definitively eliminated in the peace process ”. .

The ELN has not yet commented on the matter.

Source: Elcomercio

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