2023-08-31 11:15:54
The Ombudsman warned that Between January 2022 and July 2023, 423 victims of forced disappearances have been registered in the country.
The observatory of behaviors in violation of Human Rights of that entity, indicated that 322 cases correspond to disappeared men and 78 to women; while in the other 23 gender is not typified.
The six departments in which the most cases occurred were Nariño, Norte de Santander, Antioquia, Córdoba, Guaviare and Arauca. The entity indicated that the border areas register greater difficulties in the search for missing persons.
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In 370 statements received by the Ombudsman’s Office, it was evidenced that the events occurred between 1974 and 2023.
“It is striking that of the six departments with the most cases of forced disappearance, three of them are in land border areas. It is there where there are greater difficulties in the search for the disappeared persons, according to the complaints and reports of the victim communities. who reside in those regions,” said Carlos Camargo, ombudsman.
The official asked the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to consider the creation of an exclusive macro case for the investigation and punishment of acts of forced disappearance in the internal armed conflict.
That entity also reiterated the call to the illegal armed groups to renounce these practices.
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According to the single registry of victims and cut to July 2023, more than 192,000 victims of forced disappearance events, including 51,342 direct victims, and 141,098 indirect or personally affected victims.
Finally, Light Janeth Forero Martinez, director of the Search Unit for Persons Deemed Missing, indicated that “I invite you from the UBPD to continue with the commitment and with this conviction that we can all participate in the search for the disappeared through different mechanisms, in various ways. We have to be absolutely creative in that to never give up on this purpose.”
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