The violence of armed groups is once again tragically striking Colombia. Clashes between a dissident faction of the FARC guerrillas and another armed group have left 18 people dead in the south-west of the country, near the border with Ecuador, the Colombian Ombudsman announced on Sunday.On Saturday, "18 men were killed in a confrontation between the self-proclaimed 'Comandos de la Frontera' and the 'Carolina Ramírez' first front of FARC dissidents", according to a bulletin published by the public human rights...
At least two soldiers died in bomb attacks on the day of the parliamentary elections in Colombia. The two men were killed in an explosion in Caquetá and Meta departments on Sunday, the armed forces said. Two other soldiers were injured in the attacks. It was initially unclear who was behind the attacks. Guerrilla groups, paramilitaries and criminal gangs are active in the South American country. A total of 73,000 soldiers were deployed in Colombia on Sunday to protect voters...
Night review: Betancourt at Beckmann Who escaped the jungle About the addiction to freedom and the disgust of politics - Ingrid Betancourt talks about six years of imprisonment in the Colombian jungle on "Beckmann" on ARD.Sebastian Schoepp source site
Status: 02.10.2021 12:20 p.m. The peace treaty with the FARC guerrillas in Colombia was supposed to end five decades of civil war - but parts of the agreement were never implemented. Away from the big cities, the spiral of violence continues. By Anne Herrberg and Antonia Schäfer, ARD-Studio Rio de Janeiro The Rio Uva meanders through the dense rainforest of the Chocó in western Colombia. Pangas - small wood-powered canoes - are the only means of transport to reach the...
[ad_1] The tribunal responsible for judging the crimes of the conflict in Colombia announced on Tuesday that it would investigate the enlistment by the Farc, the guerrillas dissolved after the signing of a peace agreement in 2016, of 18,667 minors during its armed uprising. This lasted for five decades. The Special Court for Peace (JEP) clarified that at least 5,691 of these minors were under the age of 14, which violates international humanitarian law. "The Farc systematically recruited and used...
