A spokesperson for Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas introduced Thursday that they may launch the daddy of Liverpool soccer star Luis Diaz, simply days after kidnapping him in northern Colombia.
Diaz’s mom, Cilenis Marulanda, and father, Luis Manuel Diaz, have been taken by armed males as they have been driving in La Guajira province on Saturday.
Marulanda was freed inside hours.
Colombia’s authorities reported that the ELN was answerable for the kidnapping earlier on Thursday. Interior Minister Luis Fernando Velasco mentioned the state of affairs was “very serious” and that it violated a cease-fire between the federal government and the rebels.
Peace talks between the ELN and the federal government restarted final 12 months in hopes of ending the group’s function in Colombia’s 60-year battle, which has killed not less than 450,000 individuals.
The authorities and the ELN started a six-month cease-fire in August as a part of the negotiations.
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Diaz’s father shall be launched “as soon as possible,” ELN consultant Juan Carlos Cuellar advised a group assembly in a video clip shared by the ELN with Reuters.
Earlier on Thursday, the federal government’s peace delegation, answerable for negotiating with the ELN, known as for Diaz’s father to be launched instantly.
“We remind the ELN that kidnapping is criminal, violates international humanitarian law, and that its duty in building the peace process is not just to stop kidnapping but to eliminate it forever,” Otty Patino, head of the federal government’s peace delegation, mentioned in a press release.
The ELN, Colombia’s most radical leftist guerrilla group, has lengthy funded its operations by way of kidnapping, extortion, and drug trafficking, based on safety sources.”
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