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Jhon Albert Montilla left this Wednesday from Villavicencio accompanying his daughter Danna lizeth back to San José del Guaviare. But her daughter came back in a coffin.
The 16-year-old girl was killed in the bombing by the Military Forces to a camp of the dissidents of alias Gentil Duarte, which sparked a controversy after it was reported that, apparently, several minors were in the place.
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The last time Montilla saw the girl alive was in mid-December 2020, in the village of Puerto Cachicamo. From there Danna left for her grandparents and at the beginning of 2021 she began to visit relatives with an internet signal, to be able to study.
In mid-January, the family lost all contact with the minor.
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“Family members told me that perhaps she had gone to work with her boyfriend, in one of the nearby trails. That over there is very normal, that girls – who no longer have the consent of their parents – go to work, “Montilla told EL TIEMPO, who also assured that he always kept the hope of seeing her again.
But the reunion took place this Wednesday, at the facilities of the Villavicencio Institute of Legal Medicine (Meta).
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There, after verifying the fingerprints of some bodies that arrived the weekend before as alleged guerrillas, it was found that 16-year-old Danna Lizeth was one of the fatal victims of the military bombing, in the place known as Buenos Aires, in Calamar. Guaviare.
“They told me that the girl is without her right hand and without a leg, and so they gave me the body,” said the peasant in dialogue with EL TIEMPO.
He assured that the inhabitants of the sidewalks New Colombia, Cachicamo and in general, the hamlets of Buenos Aires, in Guaviare, have to face daily threats from illegal armed groups due to the forced recruitment of minors.
“It is something that has become common, but I never thought it would happen to my daughter,” he said.
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He also specified that the peasants of the region suffer stigmatization of being collaborators of the FARC dissidents, alias Gentil Duarte, when in reality they are its victims, so they no longer know what to do with the children who survive them.
“We live there under threat at all times, they accuse us of being collaborators in everything,” said Danna Lizeth’s father, when responding to reporters from this newspaper, if they felt fear about the complaints they plan to institute for the death of their children.
He affirmed that they will ask the Ombudsman’s Office so that they can pronounce on the way in which they were killed, not only their daughter, but those of all the minors who were in the well-known place Buenos Aires.
“For the Minister of Defense, children of 13, 14 and 16 years old were turned into war machines, it is very sad that a child is seen in these conditions (…) it is very sad that the boys are called that,” Montilla told EL TIEMPO, by ensuring that they are seeking legal mechanisms that allow them to report this case nationally and internationally.
Regarding the two minors who survived the bombing, the Personra of San José del Guaviare, Carolina Galeano, told this newspaper that before the end of the week a hearing will be scheduled to allow their entry into the registry of the Unit of Victims, to find out how the minors were subjected by that guerrilla.
He also pointed out that neither his office nor that of the Personería de Calamar, Guaviare, have relatives of other minors who had suffered similar fate have approached.
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