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Venezuelan refugees in Colombia afraid to return home after brutal conflict, army abuses
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17/05/2021 - 11:02 The image on the left shows displaced Venezuelan families in Arauquita, Colombia in May 2021. The image on the right shows one of the buildings that was destroyed in La Victoria, Venezuela. © Tito Prada; DR/Twitter. Text by: Maëva Poulet 10 min On March 21, the Venezuelan army launched a military operation against Colombian armed groups operating within its territory in the border state of Apure. About 5,000 Venezuelan civilians fled the fighting and bombing, seeking refuge across the border in Colombia. While some of the refugees have returned home in recent weeks, others are waiting for the departure of the Venezuelan army, which is accused of numerous abuses, including executing civilians.
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In February 2020, representatives of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and a dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) – the “Gentil Duarte,” the same faction that Nicolás Maduro has been targeting with bombings in Apure – assembled the Indigenous inhabitants of Pendare, a corner of the Venezuelan Amazon jungle.
The occasion? Announce that they intend to legally settle there – with the permission of Caracas, they said. Met with resistance, the guerrillas tried to convince the locals, but they did not take into consideration that the Piaroas might be recording the assembly. Armando.info accessed the recordings: an audio testimony of how the Colombian armed gangs described their history and plans in the south of Venezuela.
A rebel playing field: Colombian guerrillas on the Venezuelan border
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By Bram Ebus
In the jungle along the Colombian-Venezuelan frontier, guerrillas, criminals and shadowy state elements jostle for illicit profits. Venezuela’s campaign against one armed group has raised tensions. Bogotá and Caracas should temper their war of words and work to forestall an inadvertent bilateral escalation.
In the early hours of 21 March, the screech of combat aircraft overhead sounded the alarm that Venezuela has become a theatre in Colombia’s decades-long internal conflict. That morning, the Venezuelan military launched its first large-scale operation against a dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) active inside Apure, a Venezuelan state hugging the Colombian frontier from the Andes in the west, along the Meta River, to the Orinoco River in the east. This action kickstarted a series of skirmishes that so far have reportedly claimed the lives of at least
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