A UN convoy was attacked by an armed group and several vehicles burned Thursday, January 27 in the south-east of Colombia, we learned from a UN source.
In a press release, the UN mission in the country, responsible for ensuring the application of the 2016 peace agreement with the former Marxist guerrillas of the FARC,
"strongly condemned"
this attack suffered by one of their local teams in Puerto Nuevo, a rural area in the department of Guaviare (southeast).
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The UN agents were traveling with members of the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Norwegian Refugee Council when "they were approached by armed men who made them get out of their vehicle".
"Two of the three vehicles were set on fire"
by the assailants, the statement explained.
The members of the convoy
“returned safe and sound”
to their offices.
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According to an adviser to the Colombian presidency, Emilio Archila, speaking on local radio, the
"criminals presented themselves as dissidents"
of the former FARC guerrillas, under the command of "Gentil Duarte", one of the men most wanted in the country.
Created in the wake of the 2016 peace agreement between the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the government of then-President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos, the UN Verification Mission monitors to the implementation of this agreement which enabled the disarmament of some 7,000 guerrillas.