“War is war”, says Petro to the Central General Staff after the death of 15 dissidents

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Pedroguaranteed that the death of 15 members of the Central General Staff (EMC), the main dissident of the FARCin military operations this Thursday in the department of Caucain the southwest of the country, it is a consequence of the State’s warlike response to its actions and its removal from the table.

“We shouldn’t play with peace, if it’s war it’s war. Stopping war means taking peace seriously. He EMC at the Cauca he didn’t have it when he killed the civilian population“, noted Petro on his X account.

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The president repeated the news that the Colombian army killed 15 dissidents from the FARC and injured 12 other people in The silverdistrict of Cauca, in which “the biggest action against him”.

In recent weeks, the Colombian Military Forces have redoubled the military campaign against the part of the EMC commanded by ‘Ivan Mordisco‘, after this armed group, in its campaign of harassment of the civilian population and especially indigenous communities, killed an indigenous leader in March.

Petro first ordered the suspension of the ceasefire in three departments where the EMC’s most belligerent fronts operate and then ordered the Army to act with force against the armed group, especially in Cauca.

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Currently, the Government considers that there are two groups within the Central General Staffthe most belligerent with whom the ceasefire was broken and no longer negotiate, and the fronts of Medium Cupcake It is Catatumbo and those from the south of the country, with whom they continue to want to sit at the negotiating table that was formally constituted last year.

In November last year, El Plateado represented a turning point in the dialogue, which was suspended after the community maintained a platoon of 200 soldiers, although the delegations were later able to mitigate differences and carry out a few more cycles of dialogue.

Source: Elcomercio

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