Bogota.- The Colombian authorities reported this Friday the discovery of four men killed in a rural area of the municipality of Buesaco, in the department of Nariño, bordering Ecuador.” In the morning hours at the Santa Fe Corregimiento, in the municipality of Buesaco, exactly on the Las Minas road, we are told that four bodies were found. We ordered verification by the area inspector who at eight in the morning confirmed the fact to us,” reported the mayor of Buesaco, Nilson López.
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Versions of locals indicate that the victims, who were uniformed in rubber boots, denim pants and black T-shirt, were reportedly executed with firearms, so it is suspected that they may belong to some illegal armed group. The case is investigated by a team of the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office who traveled to the place where the bodies were found.” It’s four men and the weird thing I’d say about it is that they’re not from the area. No one recognizes them and I definitely believe this will be a task for the authorities to investigate what happened in this incident,” the mayor added. Lopez noted that last Tuesday on the road that connects Buesaco with Santa Fe, a fact that could be linked to this Friday’s crime occurred.” Peasants in the area had expressed the presence of strange people,” said the mayor, who also called on the national and departmental government “so that this tranquility that the municipality of Buesaco has had will not be lost.” VIOLENCE IN NARON Last Thursday, the Attorney General’s Office announced that it clarified the six-person massacre that took place on 22 August in La Guayacana, also in rural Nariño department, and that it captured four alleged perpetrators of the massacre. According to the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, in the last two weeks the authorities have captured 16 alleged perpetrators of the massacres of 32 people in the departments of Norte de Santander, Cauca, Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Cundinamarca, Arauca and Nariño.The Observatory of the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ), which classifies as massacre the intentional and simultaneous killing of three or more people protected by International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and in a state of defencelessness , in the same circumstances of time, mode and place, assured that if today’s one were confirmed, there would be 50 massacres perpetrated in Colombia this year. In Nariño, where armed groups are contesting control over criminal activities mainly linked to drug trafficking, three massacres were carried out in the towns of Samaniego, Ricaurte and Tumaco in recent weeks, left 17 people dead. You may also be interested in:
