The explosive devices would belong to the Residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Structure 10 and would be used to attack the troops and the inhabitants in Arauca.
In the framework of stability operations, in the village of La Esmeralda in the municipality of Puerto Rondón, Arauca, soldiers of the Ground Operations Battalion No. 29 of the Eighteenth Brigade of Colombian National Army, in recent days found about 400 explosive devices that were hidden and that, apparently, would be used to attack the troops carrying out military operations in the area, and the inhabitants.
When finding the explosive devices and searching tasks, the soldiers found 270 anti-personnel mines, 114 explosive devices or tatucos, 16 means of launching and five suitable gas cylinders with explosive material inside, in addition to 25 kilos of black powder, a welding equipment and a riveter.
It was established that the explosive material would belong to the Residual Organized Armed Group GAO-r Structure 10, and could have attacked the lives of more than 1,000 people including civilian and military personnel, constituting a flagrant violation of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.
The explosive material was destroyed in controlled conditions, following all the security protocols by the explosives and demolitions team of the military unit, thus neutralizing future attacks against the inhabitants and fauna of the region, because the anti-personnel mines could be planted by that organized armed group in roads used by the peasants of the area. It in the same way neutralizes future terrorist attacks against the Military Forces stationed at military bases or command checkpoints, or attacks against critical nation buildings.
Source: Press – National Army
