Reports reveal that the soldiers who were deployed to the community about two months ago had stopped the gunmen from attacking twice in a space of one month. A military source who spoke on the matter said, ” We strategically put our troops in a border area between the village and the mountains from which their attackers come from. ”
He continued, ” Many times, they have tried to jump on the village but they were stopped by the troops in heavy crossfires. In the past one month, we’ ve had gunfights with them and lost two of our soldiers. ”
” Just a few days ago, the villagers brought a note from the attackers, asking the troops to leave that location so that they could attack. In fact, they threatened that if our soldiers didn’ t leave, they would be the first to be attacked. ”
The source who further revealed that efforts had been made in the past to broker peace between the gunmen and the villagers revealed that miltary troops are fully on ground in case of an attack.
According to him, ” Because they can’ t enter into the village and launch an attack, as soldiers won’ t allow them, they now wait for some farmers to enter their farmland and from there they go to attack them. ”
” It could be difficult to ask soldiers to now follow each villager to the farm, so we thought we could broker peace through dialogue with those guys. We made a call through, and an agreement was reached that they won’ t attack the villagers again. ”
” Then at least, we had about three weeks gone and there was no attack on any farmer. It was shocking to see their latest threat, but our troops are on standby and we won’ t allow them to take over that village, ” he concluded.
