Colombian authorities discovered at least 300 unidentified body remains in what they believe to be a graveyard belonging to the FARC in the southern department of Caqueta, independent newspaper La Nacion reported Monday.
The mass grave was discovered May 30, when a committee from the Prosecutor General's Office found at least 100 graves, each containing the remains of three bodies.
The site, in Caño Gafas, in the jurisdiction of Cartagena del Chaira, is the largest of its kind to ever be discovered in Colombia.
Authorities believe there are likely many more mass graves in the department which they have been unable to search thoroughly due to the high risk of attack.
The Prosecutor's Office sent in a team anthropologists, photographers, surveyors and field assistants to try and identify the bodies which they believe are former FARC guerrillas killed in combat, government soldiers and civilians. Exhumation will likely continue for many weeks.
The authorities assume that at least 300 unidentified remains rest in a land located in Caño Eyeglasses jurisdiction of Cartagena del Chaira.
THE NATION, Florence
Staff Attorney General's Office, managed to reach Caño Glasses in Cartagena del Chaira (Caquetá), where they say that there may be more than 300 bodies buried in mass graves.
Glasses Cano, a point located within the vast territory of the municipality of Cartagena del Chaira, has been one of the closed areas for the authorities to carry out exhumation of remains of missing persons.
However, on 30 May, a committee of the Attorney General's Office was able to enter the site and check what was suspected by intelligence information, that were located on the site at least a hundred mass graves are presumed dozens missing.
According to judicial sources, the authorities have also identified various points in the jurisdiction of the Union Peneya, Milan, Cartagena del Chaira, El Doncello, Paujil, Puerto Rico, San Vicente del Caguan or Solano, where it is virtually impossible to enter at the risk of an attack of the FARC.
However, for the search committee from entering to Caño glasses are required at least 2 or 3 groups of counter-insurgency, backed by aircraft and helicopters, to move to the site that has been called the largest mass grave from the FARC .
In August 2010, Cano Glasses, army units were heavy clashes with the FARC and managed to recover the area. The operations were in charge of Counterinsurgency Battalion 25 'Héroes de Paya'. The place has strong gang presence Ismael Mejia "of the FARC, which is part of the Southern Bloc of the FARC.
Meanwhile, it was found that six bodies have been exhumed from two mass graves. THE NATION was established that the site would be at least 100 graves in which they would be mortal remains of three each. Thus, it is expected that the operation later exhumation at least every week.
This finding has been called the largest mass grave of the FARC, above which was located in the Union Peneya and where lay the remains of 'El Mocho Cesar. However, it would be different because the cases in Caño glasses have buried the guerrillas not only guerrillas, but also soldiers and civilians. In this sense, military sources said that the bodies located in Caño glasses belong to guerrillas, soldiers and civilians "executed" by the FARC or killed in action.
Similarly, the authorities are handling the hypothesis that within the nasal military bodies would also disappeared in the guerrilla takeover of El Billar Caquetá, which occurred in 1998 and where 64 soldiers were killed, 19 wounded and 43 kidnapped.
To determine with certainty what would be the identities of the missing, the prosecution and Glasses Cano sent a team of anthropologists, photographers, surveyors and field assistants escorted by command of Joint Task Force Omega, with strong presence in the area.
Although Cano glasses, has been called the largest mass grave of the FARC, not forget that there are still closed areas in the department to reach the authorities to verify intelligence reports that account for the existence of more cemeteries underground, where they would be missing the last decades of arduous military confrontation in the Caquetá.
Monday 4 June 2012
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/24398-farc-cemetery-discovered-in-souther-colombia.html
http://www.lanacion.com.co/2012/06/04/descubren-cementerio-de-las-farc/
Colombian authorities discovered at least 300 unidentified body remains in what they believe to be a graveyard belonging to the FARC in the southern department of Caqueta, independent newspaper La Nacion reported Monday.
The mass grave was discovered May 30, when a committee from the Prosecutor General's Office found at least 100 graves, each containing the remains of three bodies.
The site, in Caño Gafas, in the jurisdiction of Cartagena del Chaira, is the largest of its kind to ever be discovered in Colombia.
Authorities believe there are likely many more mass graves in the department which they have been unable to search thoroughly due to the high risk of attack.
The Prosecutor's Office sent in a team anthropologists, photographers, surveyors and field assistants to try and identify the bodies which they believe are former FARC guerrillas killed in combat, government soldiers and civilians. Exhumation will likely continue for many weeks.
The authorities assume that at least 300 unidentified remains rest in a land located in Caño Eyeglasses jurisdiction of Cartagena del Chaira.
THE NATION, Florence
Staff Attorney General's Office, managed to reach Caño Glasses in Cartagena del Chaira (Caquetá), where they say that there may be more than 300 bodies buried in mass graves.
Glasses Cano, a point located within the vast territory of the municipality of Cartagena del Chaira, has been one of the closed areas for the authorities to carry out exhumation of remains of missing persons.
However, on 30 May, a committee of the Attorney General's Office was able to enter the site and check what was suspected by intelligence information, that were located on the site at least a hundred mass graves are presumed dozens missing.
According to judicial sources, the authorities have also identified various points in the jurisdiction of the Union Peneya, Milan, Cartagena del Chaira, El Doncello, Paujil, Puerto Rico, San Vicente del Caguan or Solano, where it is virtually impossible to enter at the risk of an attack of the FARC.
However, for the search committee from entering to Caño glasses are required at least 2 or 3 groups of counter-insurgency, backed by aircraft and helicopters, to move to the site that has been called the largest mass grave from the FARC .
In August 2010, Cano Glasses, army units were heavy clashes with the FARC and managed to recover the area. The operations were in charge of Counterinsurgency Battalion 25 'Héroes de Paya'. The place has strong gang presence Ismael Mejia "of the FARC, which is part of the Southern Bloc of the FARC.
Meanwhile, it was found that six bodies have been exhumed from two mass graves. THE NATION was established that the site would be at least 100 graves in which they would be mortal remains of three each. Thus, it is expected that the operation later exhumation at least every week.
This finding has been called the largest mass grave of the FARC, above which was located in the Union Peneya and where lay the remains of 'El Mocho Cesar. However, it would be different because the cases in Caño glasses have buried the guerrillas not only guerrillas, but also soldiers and civilians. In this sense, military sources said that the bodies located in Caño glasses belong to guerrillas, soldiers and civilians "executed" by the FARC or killed in action.
Similarly, the authorities are handling the hypothesis that within the nasal military bodies would also disappeared in the guerrilla takeover of El Billar Caquetá, which occurred in 1998 and where 64 soldiers were killed, 19 wounded and 43 kidnapped.
To determine with certainty what would be the identities of the missing, the prosecution and Glasses Cano sent a team of anthropologists, photographers, surveyors and field assistants escorted by command of Joint Task Force Omega, with strong presence in the area.
Although Cano glasses, has been called the largest mass grave of the FARC, not forget that there are still closed areas in the department to reach the authorities to verify intelligence reports that account for the existence of more cemeteries underground, where they would be missing the last decades of arduous military confrontation in the Caquetá.
Monday 4 June 2012
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/24398-farc-cemetery-discovered-in-souther-colombia.html
http://www.lanacion.com.co/2012/06/04/descubren-cementerio-de-las-farc/
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