Álvaro Uribe defends Diego Molano: “the minister is serious and honorable”

The Minister of Defense, Diego molano, was underlined by Senator Iván Cepeda for having concealed that four minors died in an attack against the ELN in Chocó. An accusation that will lead to a debate on political control that several opposition parliamentarians have already filed.

In the midst of the controversy and strong questions against Molano, the former president Alvaro Uribe He took his defense through a trill but also by sharing a message from a tweeter that compared the situation to a cage of lions.

“Minister Diego Molano is serious and honorable, committed to saving security”, assured the leader of the Democratic Center, also in his message he shared that of a tweeter which says:

“If someone irresponsibly enters a lion cage and uses a miner as a shield that the lion ends up attacking, the culprit is not the lion but the coward who used the miner. But there will be no shortage of drones calling for the death of the lion and a siege for the coward “.

The information that Cepeda revealed, was confirmed by a right of petition filed with forensic medicine and This prompted the reaction of several opposition politicians to Iván Duque’s government who recalled when Guillermo Botero, former defense minister in the current legislature, left his post for the same reasons Molano is today. in the eye of the storm.

“For Guillermo Botero, the bombing of illegally recruited boys and girls cost him his post at the Ministry of Defense. In the bombing of Chocó, it is said that there were 4 adolescents. Will the same happen to Diego Molano? This operation violates IHL. Does that answer? “, wrote to House Representative Ángela María Robledo, supported by her Coalition of Hope partner Senator Antonio Sanguino, who asked Molano “Concrete explanations” for the recent fact.

Indeed, Iván Cepeda himself, attached to the Democratic Pole, announced, almost in unison with the publication of his complaint, that he would summon government official Duque to “To be accountable in political control session before the Senate of the Republic for the new episode of bombings against minors”, wrote on Twitter.

This fact comes in addition to the controversial statements made by the Minister on March 11 of this year also due to a bombardment carried out by the army, this time in Guaviare, on March 2 against the guerrilla group alias Gentil Duarte, where some minors died. .

In an interview with La W Radio, Molano assured, in an attempt to justify the death of several minors, that these structures transform young people into war machines, training them to attack the public force and the civilian population: “They have been training them for a long time, they are dehumanizing them. For this reason, what our force must do is dismantle these structures, ”he explained.

However, the expression that young people are becoming “war machines” This was not very well received by politicians and journalists, who did not hesitate to challenge Minister Molano’s comments.

“Defense Minister Diego Molano says recruited miners are ‘war machines’. It is not clear to me when child victims of recruitment lose their victim status and become “machines” that can be bombed. “, said journalist Yolanda Ruiz at the time.

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