This was announced by the entity's director, after learning the figures revealed in recent days by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which accounts for 181 victims of these explosive devices in the country between January and June 2020.

After learning that so far this year, as revealed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in Colombia 27 people have died and 154 survived who stepped on or had contact with antipersonnel mines, the director of the Unit for Attention and Comprehensive Reparation to Victims, Ramón Rodríguez, assured that the entity has prepared a protocol in order to attend, assist and repair the people who suffered damages from these explosive devices.

“An inter-institutional coordination is being carried out in the territories, in the places where these situations occur, to activate the route that has already been established. This route works through the Transitional Justice committees, through contingency plans", added the entity's director.

Rodríguez reported that “the Victims Unit has updated contingency plans so that once an antipersonnel mine accident occurs, all basic assistance mechanisms for the victim are guaranteed, but also mechanisms along the route of attention, assistance and repair”.

According to the Single Registry of Victims, as of June 2020, 11,732 people have suffered the act of victimization called "Antipersonnel Mines, unexploded ordnance and Improvised Explosive Device". Of these, 9,865 people are subject to care by the Victims Unit.

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