Rescuing missing children in Colombia ‘True way to peace’ Armistice agreement with rebels
The president announced that the rescue of a child after 40 days of disappearance in the Colombian jungle was a “meeting of knowledge, a true path to peace.”
The announcement of the rescue of the four children comes shortly after President Gustavo Petro signed a ceasefire with representatives of the National Liberation Army rebels, following a government message emphasizing efforts to end Colombia's internal conflict and the joint efforts of the military and indigenous communities to find the children. emphasized, the AP reported on the 10th.
“Here is another road for Colombia: I believe this is the true road to peace,” Petro said in a tweet on “Indigenous Peoples and Military” on the 9th.
President Petro initially reported that the child was found in a message on Twitter on the 7th, but later deleted the post, saying the information had not been confirmed, Reuters reported on the 10th.
President Petro's deleted message on the 7th said that he "decided to delete the tweet because he could not verify the information provided by (the child welfare agency)" and that "a search is underway."
For some time on the 9th, Petro said he believed the children were rescued by one of the nomadic tribes that still roam the remote area where the plane crashed and has little contact with authorities, the Associated Press reported.
The children told officials that they had spent some time with the rescue dog, but the rescue dog was gone when the military found it. It was a rescue dog that soldiers had taken to the jungle, and the military is looking for a Belgian Shepherd dog named Wilson as of Monday, the Associated Press said.
President Petro told reporters on the 9th, "They were together, they were weak, let the doctors evaluate them. They found them, and that makes me very happy." Confirmed.
“Four indigenous children survived an Amazonian plane crash and braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive by Colombian soldiers after three adults died,” the AP said. It brought a happy ending to the search-and-rescue saga against that.”
Huitoto children aged 13, 9, 4 years and 11 months, who were found in the jungle about 5 km from the plane crash site, showed familiarity with cassava flour and the fruit of the rainforest, as well as an area rich in snakes, mosquitoes and other animals. It was the key to survival.
They were traveling with their mother from the town of Aracquara in the Amazon to San Jose del Guaviare when the plane crashed in the early hours.
The children in the Cessna single-engine propeller plane were on board with three adults, including their mother, when the pilot declared an emergency due to engine failure.
The children's uncle Fidencio Valencia told reporters outside the hospital shortly after being transported by helicopter to a hospital in Bogota, the capital: "When the plane crashed, they took the parinhas (from the wreckage) and with them they survived." They started eating the seeds," he said.
Fariña, which allows for 40 days of jungle survival, is cassava flour that people eat in the Amazon region.
An Air Force video released on the 9th shows a group of soldiers and volunteers posing with children wrapped in blankets, while a helicopter is unable to land in a dense rainforest where it finds children and uses a rope to hoist them up. There is a scene where one puts a bottle to the lips of the smallest child.
Rescuers initially found the crashed plane and retrieved the bodies of the three adults on board, but the young children were nowhere to be found, so it was determined that they might be alive. flew into a heavily restricted area.
“Dozens of volunteers from indigenous tribes also took part in the search,” the AP said.
Soldiers in helicopters rescued children and dropped crates of food into the jungle, planes flying over the area fired flares to help searchers on the ground at night, and rescuers received a recorded message from the siblings' grandmother. “Stay in one place,” repeated the voice.
As the search progressed, soldiers found small clues that led them to believe the children were still alive, including a pair of footprints, a baby bottle, a diaper and pieces of fruit that appeared to have been bitten by a human.
Astrid Cáceres, director of Colombia's Institute of Family Welfare, told reporters at the hospital, "The jungle was harvesting, so even the children could eat the fruit." The hospital has agreed. Musicians and instruments related to children's culture will be allowed in the hospital.”
Officials praised the courage of the eldest of the children, a girl who told reporters she knew something about surviving in the rain forest and led them through the ordeal, the Associated Press reported.
President Petro, a leftist government, agreed with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in November of last year for a “peace negotiation” of a “six-month truce,” but in January this year, the peace negotiations were suspended when the ELN demanded “a bilateral ceasefire negotiation with the government.” Aboriginal and government forces collaborated for the first time in the search for children, and Aboriginal people found them first.
The National Liberation Army is a rebel group formed in 1964 and is the largest of Colombia's armed groups, and last year 'peace negotiations' were signed with five armed groups.
Most of the Korean media reported that the children ate the food that the military first discovered and dropped, but the sources for this do not appear to be true as the foreign press did not clearly reveal the facts.