(6 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nobsa, Boyaca, Colombia – 5 December 2024
1. Various of soldiers piling weapons
2. crane taking container into furnace
3. Various of fire in furnace
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gen. Hugo Lopez Barreto, Chief of the Joint Military Forces of Colombia:
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"Today, more than 23,000 firearms, seized from organized armed groups and common delinquents, will be transformed into raw materials that will benefit the population and the military forces. With this, we are adding to the historic figure of more than 50,000 weapons destroyed during 2024."
5. Soldiers guarding furnace at metallurgical plant
6. Various of mortars, rocket launchers and other high-caliber weapons displayed before being destroyed
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gen. Hugo Lopez Barreto, Chief of the Joint Military Forces of Colombia:
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"These weapons, which once represented pain and destruction, are now transformed into steel and metal rods, which are necessary to build bridges, houses, water treatment plants, and other facilities vital for our society’s benefit."
8. Various of soldiers opening bag to show seized rifles and pistols
STORYLINE:
More than 23,000 rifles, pistols, revolvers, mortars, grenade launchers and modified traumatic weapons that were seized from criminal groups were melted down on Thursday in Colombia to be transformed into metal elements that will be used as construction material.
General Hugo López Barreto, Chief of the Joint Military Forces of Colombia said the destroyed firearms are part of a "historic" year in which 50,000 weapons have been torn apart and repurposed as raw materials.
"These weapons, which once represented pain and destruction, are now transformed," López Barreto said.
Soldiers guarded a train loaded with weapons from the capital of Bogota to a private furnace in Nobsa.
Since Colombia signed a peace treaty with the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), other groups have occupied territories that once were dominated by the guerillas.
They are now in dispute over controlling illegal economies.
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