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Colombia: Opposition denounces death of four minors in bombing by armed forces

From the bombing of its armed forces Colombia against the camp of his guerrillas National Liberation Army (ELN), four minors lost their lives, he complained Senate of the opposition. The operation had a total of eight casualties, including one of its most important officers THE N.

“Of the eight people killed in this bombing, four were minors,” he said. Γερουσιαστής of the left, Ivan Sepeda, in a video he uploaded to his account on the social networking site Twitter.

To support this statement, his politician Democratic Alternative Pole, cited a Colombian forensic report documenting the deaths of two 17-year-old boys, a girl their age and a 13-year-old boy “during the events of September 16 in the municipality of El Litoral de San Juan” in the county Choco, where the bombing took place.

THE Mr. Sepeda denounced both the “forced recruitment” of minors by him THE N, as well as the fact that the bombing of the armed forces took place indiscriminately, something that is prohibited by international humanitarian law.

In a press release he issued, the Γsingular Εpitel refuted the Senator’s allegations, referring to an operation “legitimate, lawful” and “within the framework” of international law.

“It is necessary to remember that it is the ELN that violates international humanitarian law (…) by committing war crimes by forcing the recruitment of minors and putting them next to a military target,” the staff added. “Those who recruit minors are committing crimes and violations of humanitarian law. “We must denounce them and not the armed forces,” he said ΥMinister of Defense, Diego Molano.

Two weeks after the bombing, the armed forces announced the death of the commander “Fabian”, leader of one of its most active “cores” THE N. He succumbed to his injuries a few hours after being airlifted to a hospital, as he hid all the time so as not to be found and arrested by the military.

The decades that the civil war that bloodshed the Colombia, rioters are often accused of recruiting minors. The special court set up under the peace agreement between the government and the former rebel organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is investigating the forced recruitment by the Marxist armed movement of nearly 6,000 children under the age of 14. THE THE N, officially the only guerrilla organization that continues to operate in the country, has 2,450 fighters, according to the latest estimates of the research institute INDEPAZ.

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