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23. OHCHR Colombia recorded several terrorist incidents, which the authorities attributed to
FARC-EP, including one in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, on 10 June, when a device placed on
a central reservation on a road exploded, injuring 12 people.
24. OHCHR Colombia was informed that, in El Decio in Samaniego, Nariño, ELN has stepped
up its laying of anti-personnel mines since January, giving rise to several incidents and cutting
off the village. This situation resulted in turn in the cutting off of several rural areas of the
municipality and mass displacement.
25. On 17 February, in Yarumal, Antioquia, an anti-personnel mine thought to have been
planted by FARC-EP killed one person and injured three others, one of them a child of 3.
On 5 August, in El Tarra, Norte de Santander, a 16-year-old died after accidentally detonating an
anti-personnel mine thought to have been laid by ELN.
26. The planting of anti-personnel mines by FARC-EP was one of the main causes of the
displacement of several families in Canelos in Santa Rosa, Bolívar, on 14 January.
27. On 11 June, anti-personnel mines thought to have been laid by FARC-EP near the coca
plantations surrounding the village of Santa Rosa in Puerto Asís, Putumayo, cut the village off
and resulted in shortages of food and medicine.
28. OHCHR Colombia also received complaints that guerrilla groups were still recruiting
children in several departments including Antioquia, Arauca, Caquetá, Norte de Santander,
Putumayo and Valle de Cauca. In some parts of Caicedo, Putumayo, FARC-EP had threatened to
start recruiting children in the area at the end of February. On 27 March, in the department of
Caquetá, alleged threats by FARC-EP to recruit a child forced the family to flee. Also in March,
in the department of Norte de Santander, a family was forced to move following alleged threats
from ELN to recruit one of their minor children. In April FARC-EP apparently recruited three
children in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, and one of them, a girl of 14, was allegedly subjected to
sexual violence by the recruiters.
29. OHCHR Colombia received complaints of the recruitment and use of children by
FARC-EP for military, logistical and intelligence activities, including one case in May in
Ituango, Antioquia, where a child was apparently used to carry weapons and explosives.
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Security forces
30. OHCHR Colombia has noted that police stations and army battalions are often located in
populated areas, very near dwellings and other protected premises such as schools. On 10 May,
for example, the Ayacucho Battalion occupied a school in Guayaquil in Pueblo Nuevo, Caldas.
On 14 May the Office found that the army had set up a military camp in the school in
Santa Cruz, Cauca.
31. On 5 October the 59th Anti-Guerrilla Battalion of the 27th Jungle Brigade turned up at the
indigenous community council of Nasa de San Luis Alto Picudito in Villagarzón, Putumayo, and
started asking people questions and taking photographs. That prompted FARC-EP to threaten the
villagers, whom they accused of being army informers.
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