In the municipalities of Cocorná, Caucasia, Granada, Rionegro, Ituango, La Ceja, Puerto Triunfo, Nariño, Yolombó and San Carlos, 342 survivors of armed conflict were compensated by the Victims Unit.

With the delivery of letters of dignification and financial compensation to 342 victims of conflict in Cocorná, Caucasia, Granada, Rionegro, Ituango, La Ceja, Puerto Triunfo, Nariño, Yolombó and San Carlos, with resources close to $ 2,086 million, the Victims Unit continues with the conference in Antioquia until repairing 1,300 survivors in the month of January and the first week of February.

These persons agreed to the remedial measure in recognition of the victimizing acts suffered as homicide and forced disappearance of family members, kidnapping, forced displacement, terrorist acts, torture and sexual violence.

In this regard, the director of the Victims Unit in Antioquia, Wilson Córdoba Mena, indicated that “this is the department with the largest population affected by the conflict, but also where more victims have been repaired and with these days there are more than 250,000 victims compensated with resources worth $ 1.6 billion, out of a total of 2.64 billion invested in this department for repair”.

The official said that “during 2019 in Antioquia, a total of 20,089 individual administrative indemnities were handed out to 17,339 people for a total value of $ 189,525 million. Additionally, 1,084 individual judicial compensation for judgments of the Justice and Peace Law to 1,119 persons, for a total value of $ 19,904 million”.

Most of the beneficiaries are people over 74 years of age, with disabilities or with a catastrophic illness, who receive this financial compensation in compliance with resolution 1049 of 2019, which prioritizes them with this measure of reparation.

During the day the participants learned about the offer managed with different institutions in housing, higher education, savings, support for productive projects, pensions, among other benefits.

Next February 3 will be the turn for 19 survivors in Betulia, a municipality in the southwest of Antioquia where deliveries of these first two months of the year 2020 will culminate.

In total, the Victims Unit has invested 12 billion pesos in Colombia (2.8 billion in Antioquia) for individual reparation, humanitarian and emergency aid, community infrastructure projects and subsidiary support to territorial entities for the attention to the population affected by the conflict.

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