Forty -five Colombian soldiers held in a drug trafficking area were released in the west of the country, said the Colombian army on Monday, ending the latest news of a government accident in the rebel, which reject a 2016 peace agreement.
The Colombian aeronautics recovered the “accidents” soldiers and everyone was returned “healthy and saved”, said the third division of the Colombian army in X.
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez reported at the end of Sunday that the soldiers were kept by about 600 people in El Tamo, in the mountainous department of Cauca, in Western Colombia.
The arrests of the soldiers, often by the local communities that the government according to the government are pressure from the rebels, are not rare and recent accidents have ended with the liberation of unharmed soldiers.
“The kidnapping of troops is a serious violation of human rights and international humanitarian law”, wrote the division of the army in the X.
On Sunday, Sanchez had blamed the rebels commanded by a dissident known as Ivan Mordisco and had requested the immediate release of the soldiers.
The internal armed conflict of Colombia, which lasted six decades, among the government, the left guerrillas, the right paramilitary and drug traffickers, killed over 450,000 people.
Source: Terra
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