Colombia: clashes between armed groups intensify on the Venezuelan border
Colombian soldiers in the city of Tibu in April 2018. AFP - JOHN VIZCAINO
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In Colombia, three men were killed on an agricultural property near the Venezuelan border.
This is the eighth killing of this kind since the beginning of 2021. It has pushed the displacement of 400 people fleeing violence between armed groups.
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On Thursday January 28 at 9 a.m., armed men entered a farm near
the town of Tib
u
.
They killed three farmers.
Other members of this same group also took to the streets of other parts of the city.
In total, 400 people fled for fear of finding themselves trapped in the middle of clashes between different armed groups present in the area.
These families today do not know when and if they will be able to return home.
According to the Progresar Foundation, which relates these facts, this new massacre is linked to the incursion on December 14 of the paramilitary group of Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia in a neighboring rural area.
Tibu is stuck to the Venezuelan border, this mountainous area is strategic for drug trafficking and other contraband with the neighboring country.
On the other hand, it represents 27% of the coca crops in Colombia.
The country is currently experiencing the worst rise in violence since the signing of
the peace agreement with the FARC in 2016
.
Last year, 380 people were victims of clashes between armed groups.
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