Peasant and indigenous families are confined due to the presence of the Agc

Peasant and indigenous families are confined due to the presence of the Agc
Peasant and indigenous families are confined due to the presence of the Agc

The Ombudsman’s Office warned that 12 peasant and indigenous communities of Bojayá, Chocó, They are confined due to intimidation by the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) in their ancestral territories.

There are 3,350 people, 830 families, which are part of the communities Río Uva, Nuevo Olivo, Villa Alta, Tawua, Salinas, Charco Gallo, Alto Río Bojayá, Chanú, Unión Chocó, Usaaga, Playa Blanca and Mojaudó, rural area of ​​the Choco municipality.

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This population is affected by the installation of antipersonnel mines, recruitment of minors, threats to social leaders and teacherstorture for supposedly belonging to different illegal armed groups and sexual harassment against women.

“The territorial and social control exercised by the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia or ‘Gulf clan’ is increasing. Furthermore, the armed group wants to impose its hegemony in the communities “who live in the area along the Atrato River,” said Carlos Camargo Assis, Ombudsman.

Around 3,350 people are confined in Bojayá, Chocó.

Photo:Ombudsman’s Office

A humanitarian mission made up of a team from the Chocó Regional, Personería, Mayor’s Office of Bojayá and Diocese of Quibdó that visited the area was able to show that the communities, when they leave their territories, They are being extorted by illegals who set up checkpoints and take away their humanitarian aid. and resources given for being victims of the conflict.

The territorial and social control exercised by the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia is increasing

The women, as reported, are being stripped of their intimate belongings, so Some expressed their intention to take their own lives because they cannot bear the degradation to which they are being subjected.. They have been threatened with attacks on their lives if they speak about what happened.

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Another reported fact It is the restriction to remove banana production to be sold, since this group accuses them of being collaborators of other organizations outside the law.

Due to this serious situation, the Ombudsman’s Office asks to hold training sessions psychosocial care with communities and increase the strength so that armed structures distance themselves from the communities.

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