Ombudsman’s Office handed over to relatives the two minors who were in the camp of alias “Uriel”

The Ombudsman’s Office reported that two minors who were in the ELN guerrilla camp, where the Public Force killed aliases on October 25, were handed over to their relatives. Uriel, the third chief of the Western War Front.

In a letter known by the newspaper El Tiempo and sent by a woman, who identifies herself as the sentimental partner of Uriel, asks the regional ombudsman of Chocó, Luis Murillo, his “Mediation to recover” who would be the daughter of the guerrilla commander, who was in the camp during the operation.

“I come to you in order to request your mediation to recover my minor daughter who is in a community in the municipality of Medio San Juan. My daughter is one of the minors who was lost after the execution of a military operation that was carried out today, October 25, 2020 “mentions the letter.

The woman emphasizes in the letter: “We come to you as a guarantor of human rights and especially of children.”

The ombudsman, Carlos Camargo, appeared in front of the request and moved down the San Juan River to deliver the woman under 10 years old, who identified herself as the partner of the dejected leader of the Western Front.

According to El Tiempo, the woman appeared at the ICBF, and after a corroboration of her identity the two minors were handed over.

The Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, had ensured that in the alias camp Uriel There were minors, which sparked a controversy due, among other things, to the complaints made by Senator Roy Barreras in which he assures that the In 2018 and 2020, 36 children have been killed in military operations.

Holmes Trujillo mentioned at the time: “Can military operations be carried out when there are minors? Yes they can be done. They can be done with due observance of all the principles of conducting hostilities. That is to say, respecting the principles of the principle of humanity, military necessity, distinction and proportionality?

On October 25, the national government confirmed that Andrés Felipe Vanegas Londoño, alias Uriel, ELN commander and third head of the Western War Front, died after an assault operation carried out by a group of Special Forces from the command of the Military Forces -Ccoes-, in the Barrancocito village of the municipality of Nóvita (Chocó).

Alias Uriel He was responsible for crimes such as kidnapping, murder of social leaders, harassment of populations, murder of soldiers and, also, recruitment of minors for the Eln. The leader was one of the most media figures of the generational change of this guerrilla group that emerged in 1964, in the middle of the Cold War, and led by guerrillas with ages averaging 68 years.

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