BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: HUMAN EXCRETA

Antecedents on the employment of human excreta exist like biological agents, with offensive intentions, that are mended al year 1998. In agreement al report of the SIDEN, March 6, that year they detonated two explosive loads placed by guerrillas of the ELN in proximity of a patrol of the Army in Cúcuta (North of Santander), with the result of a dead soldier. The autopsy and other reports performed by the specialists of Legal Medicine confirmed that the assailants "used material fecaloide in the bombs, causing high degree of contamination in the injuries" (13).

In the middle of the year 2002, indications arose according to which the Colombian insurgency would be able to employ you form rudimentary of biological armament. In the first days of the month of June, in the framework of an offensive with bombs in the region of Cundinamarca, the police defused in the locality of Silvania a cylinder loaded bomb with 5 kilograms of homemade explosive R1, chlorate of potassium, aluminum in dust, sawdust, shrapnel and “a mixture of clay with human excrement”.

The danger of these bombs is that, al to explode, they generate deadly organic and cutaneous infections al individual reached by their splinters.

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