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

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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.

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.

MEDELLIN