Colombia’s Largely Ignored Humanitarian Crisis and Human Rights Violations

The north of Santander, department located to the east of Colombia on the borders with the State Táchira of Venezuela has as capital the city of Cúcuta. February 23 this city will be the epicenter of a humanitarian aid media prefabrication which aims to create the psychological and political conditions for a military aggression against Venezuela

We wonder why this “humanitarian aid and concern” is not addressed to the population of Norte de Santander, which has alarming figures regarding a humanitarian crisis that no one sees, which of course is not politically profitable to the Latin American right, thus bordering on contempt for humanity. The thesis of humanitarian interference is cynical and hypocritical; it is only applicable to governments and states that are not in the plebeian orbit of the empire.

Let us examine the picture of this humanitarian drama in Norte de Santander:

In recent decades, this region, and in particular its capital, has served as a laboratory for the State’s counterinsurgency strategy, which combines the state constitutional military forces and private mercenary armies known as paramilitaries, which depend in terms of command, communication, control and logistics on the commanders of the military brigades in the territory. Under the doctrine of depriving fish of water, the counterinsurgency has deployed terror against the civilian population.

The most outrageous fact against the dignity of humanity has been the existence of crematoriums in the city of Cúcuta where leaders of opposition to the political regime were burned and disappeared, regarding this event one can judge the versions of the paramilitary perpetrator called the Iguano, who coldly narrates the facts.[1]

The statistics of the human rights tragedy endured for decades in Norte de Santander are detailed in the statistics of the Single Registry of Victims, which we present below:

Violation of human rights in Norte de Santander 1984 to 2018

TABLA NÚMERO 1. PERSONAS VÍCTIMAS DE VIOLACIÓN DE DERECHOS HUMANOS EN NORTE DE SANTANDER
	Amenaza	Desaparicion forzada	Desplazamiento	Asesinato de líderes	Tortura	Total general
1984	1	92	143	218	20	474
1985	6	16	125	75		222
1986	8	20	150	75		253
1987	19	24	199	113		355
1988	14	16	208	143		381
1989	15	33	247	179	2	476
1990	47	38	297	176		558
1991	31	12	257	186	6	492
1992	36	27	299	188	2	552
1993	21	30	284	175		510
1994	47	29	302	182	2	562
1995	57	31	317	179	4	588
1996	39	38	342	245	5	669
1997	39	50	378	237	15	719
1998	70	56	459	236	8	829
1999	95	82	616	289	12	1094
2000	95	110	652	335	17	1209
2001	103	127	733	359	17	1339
2002	129	141	882	419	32	1603
2003	121	129	814	376	27	1467
2004	95	91	920	293	17	1416
2005	60	76	892	264	6	1298
2006	64	52	915	257	7	1295
2007	66	81	895	256	4	1302
2008	58	31	789	205	4	1087
2009	71	39	576	162	3	851
2010	63	46	520	155	2	786
2011	103	41	525	135	3	807
2012	185	45	545	172	8	955
2013	172	14	631	114	11	942
2014	202	8	606	70	5	891
2015	177	6	673	46	2	904
2016	221	2	589	76	1	889
2017	210	4	523	63	1	801
2018	270	4	645	71		990
TOTAL	3010	1641	17948	6724	243	29566

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/colombias-largely-ignored-humanitarian-crisis-and-human-rights-violations/