Marinilla

Local Zones of Peace: General Survey and Map

                                Marinilla
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Official Title:
Departamento: Antioquia
Region: Eastern Antioquia
Population:
Location: c100 km east of Medellin
Ethnic mix:
IDP population: By Feb. 2004, estimated that over 1000 people had fled the municipio .
Date of establishment:
Traditional political affiliation:
Trigger event[s]:
 
Persons/organisations involved in establishment:
Leadership:
 
Supporters:
 
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Relations with local government bodies:
 Mayor’s office:
 
Governor’s office:
 
Memberships of regional organisations:
 
Organisational structure:
 Community meetings:
 Decision making bodies
 Functional committees.
 
Valued goods produced in region:
 
Local armed actors in the region:
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  Paramilitaries:   
  Guerrillas: AUC highly active in region from at least 2000 onwards with headquarters in neighboring municipio of San Roques.                                               
                     
Arrangements with L.A.A.s
 
 
Significant events: In July-August 2000 municipio was one of 2 in region [other El Santuario] where paramilitaries constructed a death list of community leaders, campesinos, tradesmen etc based on a diary found on a dead FARC guerrilla naming those with “guerrilla links”. Over 50 people killed and communities abandoned as people fled to municipal capital.
 
Further comments: Municipio one of four in E.Antioquia members of REDEPAZ’s “100 Municipios”, also a member of the Asamblea del Oriente Antioqueno. 
 
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