A week after the operation of a commando of the Army special forces that took place in the rural area of the municipality of Roberto PayánNariño, Laguna de Nerete sector, where three people died, including alias “Hermes Guerrero”, fourth in command of the front commander Alfonso Cano of the Pacific Guerrilla Coordinator of the Second Marquetalia Bolivarian Army, peasants of the Tanguero community council broke their silence and say that the army did violate the space delimited as neutral where the UN is gathering the delegates of that guerrilla group, today in peace talks in Venezuela.
The Social leaders demanded a response because they claim that dozens of peasants who at that time were doing their field work were in imminent risk from the shots fired from the helicopter that transported the soldiers to the small hamlet.
Visibly frightened, the farmers who asked that their information be kept in reserve identity they assure that that morning of June 23 They heard the aircraft fly over, but they never thought that it would be a military operation, because they thought that since this was the area where they picked up the delegates of the Pacific Guerrilla Coordinator The military forces could not enter, and it was quite the opposite, said one of the farmers in the region.
Another told Blu Radio the moment he lived and said that a group of at least ten farmers, including some minors, were collecting wood to help build houses in that depressed area when they heard several gunshots that were fired. They made it from the jungle bush and everyone started running from one side to the other to hide from the bullets and save their lives.
The guerrilla commander who was killed was with his rifle on his back and he died from an accurate shot fired by a sniper and it is not true that combats were recorded as they are now saying to try to cover up the mess they made
one of the social leaders stated with a forceful voice.
Said the social leader, who also asked that his identity be kept confidential for fear of reprisals, and He said they never heard any response from other people. that all they were doing was helping to load wood, and noted that this fact caused the displacement of some families who left for fear of new operations.
“We are only asking that the agreements reached be respected and that there be no more war in our territory”said a relative of the woman who died, after warning that his niece had nothing to do with illegal armed groups.
Frightened farmers used their cellphones to film houses, canoes and boats hit by gunfire and say that no one from the army is willing to respond.
The more than 300 farmers who live in this abandoned and needy hamlet asked that the Colombian state investigates who gave the order for the 24-hour operation before the peace dialogue table was set up in Caracas, Venezuela, and they assured that this event was about to cause a crisis for the peace process between the government of President Gustavo Petro and the Second Marquetalia guerrilla.
“Acts like these cannot be repeated because Negotiations are at risk and what we have been waiting for for decades is for them to let us live in peace.“said a young farmer, who said that it is time for military and police intelligence to stop stigmatizing them because they are not guerrillas or drug traffickers and that they live in that area out of pure necessity, because no government remembers these depressed areas. and full of basic needs.
