The armed conflict in the department of Nariño, bordering Ecuador, has left more than 5,000 displaced so far in 2022, a situation that has led to a “humanitarian crisis” that worries Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
This was stated by this NGO, which pointed out that its members have witnessed new displacements in the Telembí Triangle region and that the “persistence of the crisis requires an immediate response from the institutions.”
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In the Telembí Triangle, made up of the municipalities of Barbecues, Magüí Payán and Roberto Payánthere have been four massive displacements in the last month.
“Since the beginning of March, MSF witnessed the displacement of communities from the Patía Arriba river, in the municipality of Magüí Payánand others in the Ispi and Piri rivers, in Roberto Payán, which has generated massive displacements to the urban capitals of both Magüí, Roberto Payán and Barbacoas,” the information added.
Along these lines, the local authorities 589 displaced persons have been registered in Magüí Payán, 495 in Barbacoas and 927 in Roberto Payán, figures that grow day by dayaccording to MSF.
The NGO also noted that 3,200 people have been displaced from their communities surrounding the Satinga, Sanquianga and Patía Viejo riversin the municipality of Olaya Herrera.
“In the shelters there are families who nine months ago they were displaced from their homes, which later managed to return and today they are displaced again“, one of the victims told MSF, adding that “these are families who are now losing their homes again because many are destroyed by the conflict.”
Victim care
Given what happened, MSF has supported families with health and mental health careand has donated more than 100 mosquito nets, mats, blankets, hygiene kits, purifiers and drinking water.
The MSF coordinator in Nariño, Caroline Debrabant, called on the institutions to “the suffering of this humanitarian crisis is not normalized”.
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“It is necessary to attend to the needs of hundreds of families who these weeks they have had to leave their territories again or that they are confined by the conflict“, he expressed.
In this area they have presence several FARC dissidentsespecially the Franco Benavides Mobile Column or Front 30, the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) or Clan del Golfo, the largest criminal gang in the country.
