Army seized oxygen tanks loaded with explosives from Gentil Duarte’s dissidence

Oxygen tanks, which should be used to save people’s lives, especially at this time of the new coronavirus sars-cov-2 pandemic, were seized with explosives charges in a cove located by the Omega Task Force of the Colombian Army in the Borders village of the Mesetas (Meta) municipality, in the Ariari region.

The discovery was made in a cove that belongs to the dissidence of the extinct Farc in which the alias Gentil Duarte commits a crime, according to the military, who also found in that illegal deposit: 65 meters of detonating cord, 60 meters of safety fuse, 30 kilograms of black powder, 19 inelectric detonators, 15 anti-personnel mines, 5 improvised explosive devices, 9 hand grenades, a launch medium and a kilogram of marijuana.

They also found war, quartermaster, communications and propaganda material from the dissent dominated by ‘Gentil Duarte’, whose real name is Miguel Botanche Santilla, and for whom a reward of up to 2,100 million pesos is offered to achieve his capture.

The event surprised the uniformed, since it is the first time that explosive charges have been found in a vital medical element of this type.

“We make a public complaint about how Farc dissidents in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, use vital elements to preserve health such as containers with explosives that are later installed near water tributaries and roads, to attack the Public Force, endangering the civilian population ”, indicated the military.

The uniformed men also recalled that the use of these unconventional weapons and improvised explosive devices violate International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

“The use of this type of weapon is typified in the Colombian Penal Code, in article 142: use of illicit means and methods of warfare. In the same way, it violates the common third article of the Geneva Conventions “Task Force Omega said in a statement.

The military reported that the finding was brought to the attention of the Attorney General’s Office of the municipality of La Uribe (Meta), the body that authorized him to destroy the material seized at the scene of the events.

So far this year, Task Force Omega They have found 36 illegal warehouses, such as the one that found the oxygen tanks with explosives, in the departments of Caquetá, Meta and Guaviare.

“Military operations will continue to be carried out to dismantle organized armed groups that seek to destabilize the tranquility of Colombians in the southeast of the country,” they indicated.

Infobae obtained information about a meeting that would have been held on April 2 between members of the Gentil Duarte dissidence and representatives of the Nicolás Maduro regime that apparently led to the cessation of the armed confrontations between the military of the brother country and the strongholds of the extinct FARC guerrilla that commit crimes in the border area between Colombia and Venezuela.

The meeting was achieved by Jorge Eliécer Jiménez Martínez, alias Arturo, and members of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), the Tupamaros, a large number of organizations of the Bolivarian revolution, including the Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) participated. What is striking is that everyone knew of the camp’s existence, as did the military and the inhabitants of the Páez municipality and a large part of the Apure State in the neighboring country.

A man, with a disabled arm but who speaks very firmly, explained that “the problems arose when the generals and those of high level wanted to take control of the fuel flow. “We are not collecting collaboration here, nor are we kidnapping,” said the one with the damaged arm, and it was very precise that those soldiers wanted the FARC dissidents to leave to deal with smuggling, “a source told Infobae.