This Tuesday, the Government of Nariño warned about the difficult public order situation in the department. According to the governor, Jhon Rojas, six people would have been killed in a rural area of the Magüí Payán municipality due to confrontation between armed groups.
The Nariñense president also reported, on Tuesday afternoon, that two other people were being treated at a hospital in Tumaco. He added that he is waiting for the authorities to arrive at the place where the bodies of six people would be.
“It is stated that there would be a confinement of more than 1,800 people in the rural sector of Magüí Payán and that they would be moving to the Barbacoas sector,” Rojas added.
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Governor of Nariño asks illegal armed groups to stop all acts of violence against the civilian population and said that what is happening in Magüí payan is serious because it could generate a new displacement of 1,800 people who have been confined for 72 hours pic.twitter.com/kH0gUDy4fk
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Amílcar Pantoja, Secretary of Government of Nariño, indicated that an extraordinary security council was developed to verify the information that circulates. The official said that, in a preliminary way, the transfer and care of the two injured people who are in a medical center in Tumaco is confirmed.
At this time, authorities are investigating the murders and the alleged displacement of people.
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During a visit to the department, the Major General Helder Giraldo, Commander of the Colombian Military Forces, referred to the clashes between organized armed groups that occur in the region. He stated that apparently some members of these organizations have been assassinated.
He added that the mission of the Military Forces is “to conduct operations in these sectors of Nariño’s geography in order to avoid this type of confrontation.”
“We now need a sign of peace from the groups outside the law, for the violence to cease. We cannot continue in these conditions; that is the call we are making from the department of Nariño, heeding the call of President Gustavo Petro and the Vice President Francia Márquez of a ‘total peace,'” he said. for his part, Governor Rojas.
Y described the situation of violence in the region as ‘very worrying’such as the murder of three indigenous people in the municipality of Cumbal, a similar situation in the district of Jardín de Sucumbíos and the events in Magüí Payán that have yet to be confirmed.
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Rojas reiterated that the department is prepared to start the ‘Binding Regional Dialogues on Peace Matters’ with the armed groups so that it is possible to put an end to the humanitarian crisis in the region.
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