5 police injured in clashes with southwest Colombia indigenous community
Five police officers were injured in a clash over land rights with indigenous communities in the Cauca province in southwest Colombia.
Five police officers were injured in a clash over land rights with indigenous communities in the Cauca province in southwest Colombia.
A cousin of Colombia soccer player Cristian Zapata has been arrested under suspicion of kidnapping the AC Milan player’s aunt in 2013, police said Wednesday.
A recent increase in conflict-related violence has caused a humanitarian crisis in Colombia’s southwestern region, according to humanitarian NGO Doctors Without Borders.
Amid fears of a pending FARC attack, inhabitants of a village in the southwest of Colombia on Tuesday removed all policemen from their village after which the local police station was destroyed.
Two commanders of the unit that lost 11 men in an April FARC attack that subsequently led to the unraveling of attempts to deescalate Colombia’s armed conflict have been arrested, according to local media.
Indigenous guards from a reserve in southwest Colombia temporarily detained 32 members of the army after accusations the military unit murdered a local.
Indigenous groups from the southwest of Colombia have been clashing with police over the past few weeks after months-long protests over land failed to produce agreements with the national government.
Rebel group FARC allegedly bombed a section of the Pan-american Highway, an attack that resulted in four wounded civilians and the closing of the road connecting Colombia and Ecuador.
Following the rupture of the unilateral ceasefire of the FARC on Friday, several military and guerrilla offensives cost the lives of at least two civilians, one policemen and on guerrilla.…