This GAO-r is responsible for the criminal actions in this area of the department of Cauca, which generate anxiety in the inhabitants. Operations are permanent in the area with the implementation of artillery fires.
As a result of the permanent operation carried out by the troops of the Rapid Deployment Force No. 4 of the Army in the south of the department of Cauca, and in response to the recent criminal actions carried out by the residual organized armed group Carlos Patiño, the troops of this military unit neutralized 15 members of this illegal structure, in an operation aimed at a camp area in the village of La Hacienda, village of El Plateado, in Argelia.
Military intelligence work led to the finding of this site used as a camp by members of this GAO-r, and from where the attacks on the troops around this village, as well as against the inhabitants, have originated.
Through artillery fire support and the use of platforms, the troops hit this armed group, leaving as a result in the same way a dozen wounded.
This operation was possible thanks to a joint and coordinated work with the Colombian Aerospace Force, which leads to continue countering the criminal intentions of illegal armed groups to expand in the south of the department of Cauca. In addition, the criminal and financial acts of this armed group are significantly hit.
Since the suspension of the ceasefire, the troops in the department of Cauca have face 31 combats that leave so far the death, in military operations, of more than 30 members of these structures; about twenty minors recovered who had been forcibly recruited. In addition, the operations have motivated the surrender to justice of 29 individuals.
Source: Press - Third Division of Colombian National Army
