There would be at least 2,000 displaced after the clashes that began at the end of the year in Arauca.
Colombia News.
This January 3, there are already more than 20 dead according to reports with photos that reached the national government and the media from Arauca, bodies on the roads; men and women, murdered.
So far it is reported that there would be more than 20 dead in less than two days of clashes.
In Tame, Fortul, Saravena and Arauquita in the department on the border with Venezuela, there have been bloody clashes.
The guerrillas this year have whipped Arauca for a long time.
In June 2021, they denounced that in the rural area of Cravo Norte where they carried out the 51st massacre of the country, brothers Juan and Raúl Garcés, and their uncles Joaquín Garcés Rodríguez and Ángel Garcés Rodríguez, Illegal armed groups such as the ELN and dissidents are active.
Juan Carlos Villate, Tame representative, spoke at the W Radio and indicated that the situation in the four municipalities is a critical situation, ensuring that January 2 was the “most violent day in the last ten years.”
According to Villate, there are more than 27 people killed in less than 24 hours, “and surely the figure could rise to 50 during this Monday.”
There are no official reports yet from either the Army, the Police or the Prosecutor’s Office, to determine how the attacks unfolded.
Among the dead, it is not ruled out that there are several guerrillas but also a civilian population.
The department of Arauca in Colombia is the epicenter of the conflict and violence by armed actors, in the last hours murders, detentions and displacements were reported in municipalities such as Arauquita, Fortul, Saravena and Tame. @teleSURtv pic.twitter.com/pTSUjvs15Z
– Hernán Tobar (@TobarteleSUR) January 3, 2022
The tragedy that Arauca is experiencing takes on dimensions of humanitarian emergency before the world, of degradation of the rule of law and civil liberties and empowerment of illegal armed forces, in the face of state impotence and the lack of national and binational dialogue processes.
– Dario Monsalve (@arzobispodecali) January 3, 2022
President Iván Duque ordered the transfer of two battalions to that department. This Monday an extraordinary security council was held.
At this time, we move to the department of #Arauca to verify the situation of public order in the area, after the confrontations that have occurred between illegal armed groups.
We are going to fight these groups forcefully! #Without truce in defense of Colombians
– Diego Molano Aponte (@Diego_Molano) January 3, 2022
