Mayors, departmental government, Public Force and representatives of the population affected by the conflict analyzed the goals and difficulties to comply with the actions in favor of the victims.

During the virtual session of the Departmental Committee for Transitional Justice, chaired by the Ministry of the Interior of Tolima and in which the Victims Unit participated through the Central Territorial Directorate, emphasis was placed on inter-institutional coordination and the representatives of the victims to strengthen the spaces for participation that allow achieving the goals of the development plans in compliance with the Victims Public Policy through the Territorial Action Plans (PAT).

As a representative of the population affected by the conflict, Germán Bernal, called on the mayors and the sectional government to support the return and relocation plans that the Unit is carrying out: “We make a specific request to the subcommittee of integral reparation of the department so that the entire offer is articulated in the municipalities where these processes are carried out”, he specified.

"In Tolima, the Victims Unit is advancing, to date, in 12 interventions in the same number of municipalities in which it is working to update return plans through community dialogues with victims", ​​added María José Dangond David Central Territorial Director.

During the development of the committee, the National Army also presented the progress of humanitarian demining in this department. According to the above, there are 15 municipalities free of suspicions of mines for the benefit of more than 200.000 people.

"With this important work we have managed to save more than 250 lives and above all guarantee tranquility in the territory", said Lieutenant Colonel Leonardo Fabio Cárdenas, commander of the Humanitarian Demining Engineers Battalion N° two.

For the victims this is an urgent need, since they are essential processes to comply with comprehensive reparation, such as land restitution and return plans themselves. “This demining plays a very important role because without these favorable security concepts it cannot there should be a microfocalization of these territories”, added Germán Bernal.

Given the concern of the representatives of the Victims' Roundtable about the progress of the construction of the regional care center in Ibagué, the Unit announced that next Monday, September 28, Carmenza Carolina Cotes, deputy director of the Territory Nation Coordination, will be present in this city. who is in charge of representing the agreement to clarify the process.

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