Feb
13
2019

Unit for Victims warns that de factum ways do not force the entity to pay compensation

Throughout the country, the Unit for Victims is compensating the prioritized population.

Bogotá, D.C.Bogotá, D.C.

Currently, the letters of compensation to the survivors of armed conflict are being delivered throughout the country, according to the parameters established in Law 1448 and according to the prioritization criteria, but it has been detected that there are people who are being summoned to the population to local centers and points of care, ensuring that they will be compensated, a situation that is denied by the entity.

In Bogotá, compensation payments are being made and the Victims Unit directly contacts the persons who will receive this measure contemplated within the integral reparation, this procedure is not only personal but confidential and the call is made through the different channels that the entity has.

Jorge Orlando Sanchez, territorial director for Bogotá, clarified that no de facto way in the country will result in the payment of compensation and in Bogotá both the Unit and the High Counsel for Victims, provides their attention and advice in the seven centers local with which the capital of the country has.

The Unit for Victims is respectful of the right to protest but recommends survivors not to conduct de facto ways because this is not a guarantee of streamlining the processes that are competence of the entity.

In the Colombian capital, compensation payments are made every twenty days, to those who meet the prioritization criteria, noting that both humanitarian aid and compensation have established prioritization criteria according to the resources available to the Unit, emphasized the director central territorial.

The official invited the community to denounce the people who are charging money to the victims, supposedly to help them speed up the repair processes in the Unit, because this information is completely false and the procedures in the entity have no cost and no they need intermediaries.