In the department of Cauca, armed groups outside the law are recruiting minors to use them as informants for the commission of crimes such as murders.
According to the Cauca regional ombudsman, Daniel Molano, after being recruited, the minors are victims of sexual assault and the children are instrumentalized as informants.
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“They recruit them and leave them there in the same place so that they can recruit more children and inform the armed actor who or who in the community are fighting for human rights and the actions of the Public Force,” said the official.
The defender also stated that this situation has been evident in the municipalities of Suárez and Buenos Aires.
Likewise, he stated that the problem has generated senseless executions overnight. “That is absolutely sad.”
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Molano pointed out that this panorama is quite discouraging; From 2021 to 2024 there are records of 649 children recruited and according to sub-registries, the number would exceed a thousand.
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“They recently reported the appearance of three minors in the jurisdiction of Buenos Aires; We decided to go with the Public Force and the mayor’s office; Then they informed us that a council had recovered them, we never knew who recovered them, it was surely the same armed actor who found them and took them; “Who knows if they are alive,” said the official.
The Cauca regional ombudsman asserted that, so far in 2024, the Ombudsman’s Office has under-registered 137 recruitment phenomena.
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