The number of displaced by the strong fighting in the rural area continues to grow. People take refuge in the Alphaguara Coliseum.
Displaced Jamundí, Valle del Cauca.
A critical humanitarian situation lives 407 people who were forced to leave their plots, all as a product of the fighting which are registered between the National Army the so -called central General Staff of the dissidents of alias ‘Iván Bite’, front ‘Jaime Martínez’ in understanding of the village of La Pradera de Ampudia, in the rural area of Jamundí in the south of the Valle del Cauca.
These families are refugees in the Alphaguara Coliseum, where they receive humanitarian attention. “We arrived here at the midnight shelter, We left because the fighting were very strong up there And the truth fled, because one the material can get it, but life does not, ”said a peasant woman.
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The fighting began since the night of this July 22, in that rural area of Ampudia as part of the North Shield operation, and according to Army reports at least 10 improvised explosive artifacts were detonated, indiscriminately installed by members of this illegal armed group, so support with aerial artillery was necessary.
However, according to General Juan Rendón, commander of the Third National Army Brigade, Dissidents to flee and as they usually do, tried to instrumentalize the villagers of the place generating the displacements.
“Since the inhabitants of these sectors refuse to participate in these actions, They are forced to leave their homes, arriving in some cases to receive threats to incinerate their homes What constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, affecting the tranquility of these peasant families in the region, ”said General Rendón.
The Archdiocese of Cali through the Food Bank for the Management of the Jamundí Religious Freedom Committee, delivered three tons of food and more than 400 toilet kits To the displaced families, as confirmed by the presbyter Joaquín Gómez, executive director of this social body.
“We have come to accompany the pain and suffering of our people already tell them that they are not alone and that the Church shelters them with love”Said the priest.
Meanwhile, the security seer Stuart León denounced that, after having filed a right of petition and being answered, The national government does not have a contingency plan to address social collateral effects In the fight against illegal armed groups in the municipality of Jamundí, located a few kilometers from Cali.
“Unfortunately the national government is responsible for this, for the permissiveness it has had for three years, Allowing these criminal structures to grow, they were strengthened between the Micay and Naya Canyon are 18 thousand hectares of coca, which represent 20% of national production, ”said the seer.
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The balance so far is that the number of fighting rises to three in the general area of Ampudia in the run of July and have left a balance of four dead, Among them a soldier and three decidents drew, 407 displaced people and three injured civilians, Among them, minors.
Source: Information Information System
