President of Colombia Rebel Leader Visit Death Location

BOGOTA (AFP) - President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, on Sunday, will visit the forest where the guerrilla leader of the leading rebel FARC, Jorge Briceno Suarez, was killed earlier this week.
FARC leader known as "Mono Jojoy" were killed in military attacks, according to the Colombian president's office said Saturday.
Santos "will visit La Macarena, in the province of Meta, where he will pay homage and thanks to the military forces who participated in Operation Sodom culminating in the death of` Jojoy `," the president's office said in a statement.
Suarez's death on Thursday in what the Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera referred to as "the mother of all base FARC,` was a month and a half after Santos took over power with the pledge will continue the crackdown predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The President will visit La Macarena, located about 700 miles south of Bogota, after returning from attending the UN General Assembly in New York, United States.
On the sidelines of the New York meeting, Santos said, Suarez's death was a "historic heaviest blow that ever happened to the guerrilla movement."
"The symbol of terror in Colombia has been annihilated," he said.
Sources in the Colombian Defense Ministry said Suarez was killed along with three other FARC senior leader and at least 17 guerrillas.
Armed clashes between Colombian army and guerrillas left still continues on Friday at about FARC camp located in forest areas Macarena, central Colombia.
In that battle, as many as 13 people were wounded soldiers, said Rivera.
FARC is the oldest and largest leftist groups in Colombia. The group is supported by about 8,000 people armed guerrillas.
Other leftist guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army, estimated at a magnitude only 2500 fighters.