Peasants from the town of El Plateado in the municipality of Argelia, Cauca, called on the armed actors to stop the launching of explosives with drones, as happened on the morning of this Monday, June 17, when they attacked the Army under this modality, impacting several homes.
As Jorge Ramos, a resident of this town, told it, The communities are scared because these types of attacks already happen in the middle of the housesputting the lives of civilians at risk.
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“Who stop these attacks, that the armed actors do not throw these explosives between the houses of the people because we have nothing to do with this war, Look what happened this morning, we were deaf after the explosions of those bombs that fell on our houses from those drones,” added the farmer.
According to the story of others affected by this attack, Unmanned aircraft operate from the upper parts of the mountains in the midst of fighting with the Army, but it is the communities that end up affected by this new form of warfare.
“That they stop this form of attacks because the most affected are us civilians, like this morning, we were working in the hardware store, in the Christian church when those explosives fell on us, that’s why We say please stop these attacks.”added Jorge Ramos, explaining that these events increased in recent weeks when more soldiers arrived in the area, called Micay Canyon.
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Although there were no serious injuries or fatalities, the communities not only in Algeria, but in municipalities such as Buenos Aires and Suárez, andThey are evaluating the possibility of leaving the territories to avoid being caught in the middle of these attacks, which are executed by the Carlos Patiño and Jaime Martínez fronts of the Farc.
