Armed Clash Between Marxist Groups Shows Violence Still a Reality in Colombia

Yet another massacre in Colombia proves peace is yet to be achieved in South American country.

Indigenous people of the Nasa ethnic group burn uniforms seized from ELN guerrillas on July 6, 2018, in Corinto, Cauca department, Colombia. Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

BOGOTA, Colombia—A massacre in Colombia attributed to a clash between rival leftist fighters this week shows that armed groups are still wreaking havoc in the country, even after a 2016 peace agreement.

On Oct. 30, six people were killed in a battle that the Colombian army says was between the last standing organized Marxist rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), and dissident members of the demobilized Marxist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).