One of their reasons to leave their ranks, is that they are forced to engage confrontations with illegal armed groups and Farc dissidents, with whom they dispute the mobility routes of drug trafficking over the Caquetá and Putumayo rivers.
The operation carried out by the Colombian Military against residual Organized Armed Groups in the departments of Caquetá and Putumayo led to the surrender to justice of two members of Residual Organized Armed Groups of the FARC, one of them alias Tocayo of the Structure Carolina Ramírez and other individual, this of the structure 48 Comandos de Frontera.
Alias Tocayo, 29, has been a member of the residual Organized Armed Group, Estructura Carolina Ramírez, led by alias Danilo Albizú, for approximately three years. Tocayo surrendered to justice voluntarily, because of reprisals against him and his family, after being wounded during a confrontation with the residual GAO Structure 48, Comandos de Frontera, in the department of Caquetá.
The other member, 37 years old, for two years belonged to the Organized Armed Group (Residual) E - 48 Comandos de Frontera, in the security groups of alias Sombra. In addition, he is responsible for transporting ammunition and weapons for the sub groups of this armed group, along the Putumayo River.
In accordance with what is established through the testimonies of those individuals to the justice, residual Organized Armed Groups commit crimes in the region and are recruiting young people with false promises of money and once they enter their ranks, they do not receive the payment in addition to receiving threats against his life and the lives of their families, with the aim of forcing them to commit crimes such as: targeted killings, collection of money from extortion, production of narcotics and armed clashes with other illegal armed groups, and dissidents of the former Farc, with those who dispute the mobility routes of drug trafficking over the Caquetá and Putumayo rivers.
The two men were put into custody of the Group for Humanitarian Assistance to the Demobilized and Support for Individual surrender to Justice (GAHD-ASIJ), where they will continue to follow the respective procedures with the benefits during the process.
Source: press-Colombian Air Force
