July 15, 2020

For security reasons, Colombia’s government helps to relocate an entire settlement of demobilized FARC guerrillas from the Román Ruiz post-conflict demobilization site (ETCR) in Ituango, Antioquia, to the neighboring municipality of Mutatá, several hours’ drive away, where the government has rented new land. Twelve members of the ETCR had been killed in the site’s vicinity since the FARC demobilized. The Gulf Clan and Caparros paramilitary groups are active in Ituango, as are dissident members of the FARC’s old 18th Front.

La población del ETCR Román Ruiz de Ituango #Antioquia se prepara para el éxodo a Mutatá. El Estado es incapaz de protegernos, seguiremos insistiendo en la paz, pero que todo el mundo sepa que el Gobierno colombiano es cómplice del exterminio que vivimos. #DeItuangoAMutatá pic.twitter.com/JrRISo3nok

— FARC #PorLaVidaYPorLaPaz 🕊 (@PartidoFARC) July 14, 2020

#AEstaHora Entregamos detalles del traslado de excombatientes del antiguo ETCR de Ituango a Mutatá, Antioquia

🔵🔴Sigue la rueda de prensa a través de nuestro Facebook Live: https://t.co/6HxNjsc2VA@ARNColombia @EmilioJArchila @mindefensa @PoliciaUNIPEP @GobAntioquia pic.twitter.com/ILhUTAYoBC

— Consejería para la Estabilización (@PosconflictoCO) July 16, 2020

Tags: Antioquia, Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration, Protection of Excombatants, Security Deterioration

July 15, 2020