Campesina and their two babies died in minefield in Palmira Source:
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for six days the family of Martha Liliana Machin sought it in the mountains. On Saturday they found her body and your baby. The woman, identified as Martha Liliana Machin Rodriguez, had disappeared one week. Had gone to visit his mother.
His family discovered his body clung to his arm chair in the cold mountains of Palmyra. The blast also killed a baby three months ago growing in the womb of the woman.
The tragedy shook the residents of the township Combia in the Cordillera Central, which has been wracked by war.
The minefield had been sown long ago by an armed group, apparently the FARC, although the area also have moved the so-called 'Black Eagles', say authoritative sources.
Machin Rodriguez's family, consisting of nine siblings, was forged in the field and five of them are linked to agricultural activities in the rural area of \u200b\u200bPalmira. Martha Liliana
lived with his partner and 9 month old on a cattle farm sector Cabuyal on the road between the districts Toche and Combia, about three hours from the town.
Sunday January 20 Martha Liliana told his family that he would visit his mother, Ana Rita Rodriguez, and his oldest son, age 5, living on a farm in the same region. In the afternoon we said goodbye and began walking.
To reach the road and decided to use some shortcuts. The trip was an hour. That night all were waiting, but as there was no communication from one point to another, did not realize that never came.
That Sunday afternoon explosion was heard in the mountains. Farmers thought it was a battle in a region where the FARC had dominated and then, in 1999, paramilitary groups appeared. But there were no more explosions and everything went in the silence of the mountain. Neither
Sunday or Monday there was reason for the mother and baby. There was fear of undertaking the search for the risks, although in recent months, the presence of these groups has been sporadic, officials say. But relatives of the farmer, together with neighbors, decided to press on search. The anguish continued until Saturday, when they located the bodies of her and her baby. Martha Liliana
suffered amputations of their legs and other injuries, the baby was hit by the blast.
With support from department officials brought the bodies to the morgue in Palmyra. Yesterday marked a touching farewell in the Central Cemetery.
Javier Machin, the victim's brother, said sadly that "Martha and their babies had nothing to do with this violence.
She was dragging, but it was a secluded place where no one could help or listen."
Legal Medicine will determine whether the baby died of hunger and cold, or by the impact. Minas
have affected 6,666 people in the country
Since 1990, 6,666 people nationwide have been victims of landmines. Last year, these artifacts, proscribed by international standards, claimed 874 victims.
Of these, according to statistics from the program of the Vice mine, 13 were women. Also, 8 girls and 41 boys. In the past 18 years, 632 children have been affected.
In the Valley have been reported 53 accidents and Antioquia still ranks first, with 919 accidents and 1,455 incidents since 1990.
According to figures, 68 percent of the country's municipalities are affected by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance.
The proliferation of these weapons led the country to sign the Ottawa Convention, which commits him to demine the country.
has already been advanced in military garrisons, but armed groups continue to sow and referred to request an extension to meet the goal of mine, in 2011. PALMIRA
