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This was reported by himself Commander of the Third Army Division, General Marcos Mayorga, in statements collected by Caracol Radio.
“The civilian population came with about 300 people in a riot. The troops, to avoid unnecessary clashes with the population, withdrew from the sector and they recovered the corpses of the 2 bandits, ”General Mayorga said on that station.
The subjects would have died amid clashes between the National Army and the armed group ‘Carlos Patiño’, belonging to members of the FARC dissidents that operate in Cauca, added that radio frequency.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of El Tambo, Cauca, Carlos Vela, detailed in dialogue with W Radio that the authorities are already aware of the case and that the protocols will be activated corresponding to clarify the situation.
It is not the first case of Cauca communities that intimidate the Army
The southwestern department of the country is one of the most difficult for the authorities to control. Particularly, as Caracol Radio says, for the large presence of illegal armed groups involved in the drug trafficking.
This media reported, on September 23, the expulsion of the military by peasants from Balboa, Cauca. In that occasion, the army, quoted by the station, detailed that they were citizens used or even threatened by armed groups illegal to intimidate the Army.
This is the place where the events of this Thursday occurred:
Those facts were repudiated by the Secretary of Government of Cauca, Luis Angulo, who told that station that was going to initiate dialogues with the leaders of the region to end the intimidation against the military.
On July 1, El Espectador reported another riot by peasants in Cauca against soldiers of the National Army. This case was presented in the San Juan de Micay district in Algeria., Cauca.
Some peasant spokesmen told that newspaper that they expelled the military because they were eradicating illegal crops and this was an obstacle in the voluntary substitution program led by the National Government.
“We have been waiting two years for a voluntary substitution exit, but the confidence to move forward has not been generated. People want to get out of illegality, nobody wants to live in a problem of these, but that is not overnight, “he told that publication one of the local farmers.
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