Popayan, Cauca
More than two thousand confined people leave confrontations between the Army and the Central General Staff of the FARC in two municipalities in northern Cauca. In the south of the department, combats between illegal structures were also recorded.
The humanitarian emergency is experienced in the villages The Creed, The Mary and The Damian belonging to the towns of Caloto and Toribío.
Anyi Zapata, coordinator of the Defense of Life and Human Rights Network, pointed out that “the confrontations also led to the confinement of students from an institution and the most serious thing is that an indigenous community member 31-year-old was injured by a stray bullet.”
He added that “The shots and explosions occurred in the vicinity of homesputting the lives of the civilian population in serious danger.”
In Algeria, meanwhile, residents reported clashes in the Las Perlas, Miraflores and Primavera districts, between the Carlos Patiño front of the EMC and the Second Marquetalia. Communities indicated that combatants They burned a house where a farmer was injured.
The armed clashes caused the displacement of at least 380 people who arrived at the municipal coliseum in the urban area.
The regional ombudsman, Daniel Molano, expressed “this has caused the alarms to go off again for this type of disastrous situations against the civilian population (…) People no longer leave their homes out of fear.they do not leave their workplaces and are confined.”
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