Maguaré shelter in El Meta will be subject to ethnic collective reparation
An approximate of 63 individuals that make up the Maguaré Resguardo in Villavicencio, and those who declared affectations in the framework of armed conflict in their ancestral territories of the Putumayo and great defense of the Vaupés, were notified as subjects of ethnic collective reparation.
The Victims 'Unit notified the inclusion in the Victims' Registry of Uitoto, Bora and Tatuyo families, displaced from the Putumayo indigenous reservation and the large shelter of Vaupés, which will allow them to begin their integral care and reparation process for the damages caused. collectively in the framework of armed conflict.
The Maguaré Resguardo was constituted in the municipality of Villavicencio (Meta) when it was registered in 2003 the arrival of displaced population from the departments of Caquetá, Amazonas and Vaupés, who settled in the municipality and constituted the organization "Etnias Vivas" with the object of defending their rights as a population, which currently consists of 63 individuals.
According to Carlos Pardo Alezones, territorial director of the Unit for Victims in Meta and Eastern Plains, "the entity will advance the corresponding actions for the restoration of their rights, taking into account that they are recognized as a displaced population that suffered collective damages on the occasion of the serious and manifest violation of the individual rights of its members, in the manner and legal opportunity established in article 184 of Decree Law 4633 of 2011 ".
"In this way, the evaluation and analysis of the situations that violated the collective rights of the community, and the impact they have had on the life of the civilian population that make up the community, as well as the evaluation of the juridical, contextual, and technical elements that allow him to base the decision on the Colombian State to initiate the route of attention established by law, "said the official.
This determination is the product of a request filed by a representative of these communities before the Regional Ombudsman's Office on July 31, 2015.