Over the past week, a Colombian army operation reportedly left eight FARC dissidents in the Cauca region dead and 17 wounded. The fighting took place in the Canyon del Micay, a landlocked mountain territory in the department of Cauca and one of the strongholds of the Central General Staff, the main FARC dissident group rejecting the 2016 peace deal. On 17 March, the government announced the suspension of the truce with the group in three departments of the country, after several incidents involving the EMC. Over the weekend, the army announced the launch of a major offensive, dubbed “Operation Mantus”, involving the deployment of 32,000 troops to the three neighbouring departments affected by the end of the truce, all three along the Pacific coast.
Source: Secours Rouge