Inquiry – The south-west of the country is experiencing renewed tensions, which risk increasing tenfold with the assassination of one of the leaders of the Farc opposition, “Fito”. In Gaga, the Internal Security Forces try to defend the territory against fighting.
Toribio Special Envoy
Will reprisals mount after the assassination of the “suspicious leader”, “Fito” of the Central Employees (EMC), one of the most powerful oppositions of the FARC insurgency in Colombia? Doribio, a small town in the north of the Gauca department, mainly inhabited by indigenous people, is at risk of an increase in its level of violence, according to a brief press release by the Third Division, issued in the wake of the guerrilla’s death, June. 24. “Following this event, the dissidents, in their terrorist activities, want to retaliate against the legitimate action of the military forces and, currently, fighting is going on in the rural area of Kajibio (Gauga). » Other effects are not long in coming. The Cauca Regional Tribal Council (CRIC) reported that a member of the La Cilia-La Calera Reserve in the municipality of Miranda was killed.
Army to send reinforcements…