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The Colombian Army investigates the death of an undetermined number of guerrillas in combat between two dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the department of Guaviare, in the south-central part of Colombiawhere according to preliminary information they could have died up to 30 members from both sides.
According to the Army, the fighting was between Amazon Blockwhich is part of the faction led by Nestor Gregorio Veraalias Iván Mordisco, the most wanted criminal in Colombia, and the Jorge Suárez Briceño Blockunder the command of Alexander Diazalias Calarcá.
“The troops of the 22nd Brigade are carrying out verification work in the Kuwait village, a rural area of the municipality of El Retorno (Guaviare), where in the last few hours the death of several people was reported after possible confrontations,” the institution said in a statement.
According to preliminary information from the Army, “the bodies found correspond to alleged members of the Martín Villa substructure,” which is part of the Amazonas Block, in turn a component of the Central General Staff (EMC), the largest dissident group in the FARC.
The fighting, apparently, was motivated by disputes over territorial controlmobility routes and illicit economies in the south of Guaviare.
Local media published this Saturday photos and videos in which several bodies are seen on a road, although at the moment their identity or membership of the illegal armed groups involved has not been confirmed.
Since Friday night, Air Force aircraft have been flying over the area, while the Army deployed troops and military intelligence elements to “establish the scope of the fighting and its implications, while security measures were reinforced to protect the communities in this area of the country.”
He EMCled by Iván Mordisco, is made up of former FARC fronts that They rejected the 2016 peace agreement or subsequently withdrew from the reinstatement process.
Although the Colombian Government maintains dialogue with some sectors of that organization, the EMC has suffered internal divisions that have led to armed clashes between their own factions in strategic regions such as Guaviare.
The Ombudsman’s Office has repeatedly warned about the risk of armed confrontations in the Guaviare and, through early warnings, it has denounced the presence and expansion of FARC dissidents in that department, as well as the impact of their disputes on the civilian population, including threats, forced displacements and confinements.
El Guaviare, characterized by its jungle geography, was one of the strongholds of the extinct FARC. After the signing of the peace agreement and the demobilization of that guerrilla, dissident groups emerged in the region that dispute the control of strategic territories, drug trafficking routes and illicit economies, according to the authorities.