a group of 56 displaced from the State of Guerrero, 19 of them under the age of 14, on Tuesday joined the 300 people who were already at Camp facing the National Palace, since three weeks ago , in waiting for the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador receives them and can ask the demands of relocation or return to their communities.
the newcomers are in the municipality of Heliodoro Castillo, community of Pueblo Viejo, turn South and the guitar.
A year ago, forced them out of their villages the same armed group linked to several posters in November caused movements in Tlaltempanaca, municipality of Zitlala, and in eight communities of Leonardo Bravo, where lived the other 300 displaced people are in encampment in the city of Mexico.
“Heliodoro Castillo have already more than one year out of their communities. “They have gone looking for how to rent a House, how to make him to follow his life, but is difficult, and the State Government does not give them solution, as neither gave us it to us, so they came here to demand that they relocate them”, explained Crescencio Pacheco, displaced from the of aviation field, Leonardo Bravo, and spokesperson of the affected community.
Read: Displaced people of Guerrero meet 14 days Front National Palace; children begin to get sick the first group who arrived to settle outside National Palace since February 17, pending that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador given audience, says that even when the President said March 4 during his lecture morning was already attending them, only officials of the Secretariat for human rights, migration and population of the Secretary of the Interior (Segob) have received them, but they have been no solution to their demands.
Manuel Olivares, director of the Regional Centre for human rights, José María Morelos y Pavón (Center Morelos), who gives support to those affected, told that the Thursday 7 had a meeting with Neftali Granados, Félix Santana, who was appointed as links to care for them.
“we present a proposal for humanitarian aid, which supposedly turn of this secretariat. The victims asked for help to pay the rent of a dwelling, by family, as the Government prepares the conditions so that they can return to their communities or be relocated”.
also requested support for conditioning the houses, to buy beds, chairs, and a monthly amount for food pantry. Displaced people reported that they had run away from their communities with very few belongings, and that their houses have been looted by armed groups who took control of the corridor edge of horses – Casa Verde, the gateway to the sierra de Guerrero.
“displaced persons have been left with nothing, no home, no furniture, no work, therefore the demands presented to the Government include those supports,” said Olivares. However, he said, the response of the authorities is that there are no resources to meet the requirements.
IDPs are petitioning 10 thousand pesos a month per family (they are around 80) to cover the costs of rent and food, while their situation is normalized.
“The Government doesn’t want to do that spending, but also prepare the conditions so that armed people who have taken the communities of the municipality of Leonardo Bravo retracts and the displaced can return to their homes, and solution also gives residents” Nahuas of Tlaltempanaca, municipality of Zitlala, asking to be resettled”, reported the Morelos Center activist.
Félix Santana, CEO of strategies for attention to the human rights of Segob, said in an interview that resources for pantry are guaranteed.
“We see more complex is the payment of housing because that would imply a cost per month. In addition, we can not give you attention to a group of victims over others. The Mexican Government has the responsibility to attend all the displaced people in the country and is preparing a comprehensive strategy for that, but this naughty by an institutional design of long breath. Recompose the scene will not be easy, there are several years of decomposition”.
The official explained in the diagnostic phase, placing areas and causes. The problem is very complex, he said, “only in the case of Guerrero, the eventual return through the disarmament and peace in the area. We have identified more than one dozen of the organized crime groups that coexist in this area and that makes complicated the return”.
or a glass of water
to three weeks that became the first group outside National Palace, displaced persons complain of lack of humanitarian support from the federal Government.
“They have not given us or a glass of water, no food, nothing. Only care that we have received is visited by paramedics who come and we reviewed. If someone is ill, give a recipe and you have to buy the medicine. My spouse was well bad flu and we had to go to the pharmacy of similar remedies,”told one of the displaced people.
“are in very poor condition – described another – worse than we were at Chichihualco, in the city of Leonardo Bravo where we went to take refuge, because there we were in an auditorium, we had where swim, here we had to put a” “plastics and there we get to take a bath when we got water”.
Questioned on whether it is true that not is is providing assistance to the displaced people who are in camp outside of National Palace, Félix Santana said they have made the offer to provide all humanitarian conditions when they are ready to return to Guerrero.
“Support them will be there, the attention is there.” This Government guarantees the right to protest, but we will not encourage, because we believe that the problem has to be resolved in a comprehensive manner, in the States, and with the participation of State Governments.”
Crescencio Pacheco, spokesman for displaced persons, said that this Friday could other group of 50 displaced from Guerrero and displacement and violence will remain in that State if the federal Government does not act soon to replicate the armed group that is taking the settlers from their homes to stay with the control of the area of the sierra and Chilpancingo.
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