This situation has been made more difficult due to military presence in the area which has caused a siege state, where the Indigenous groups are not allowed to walk freely on their lands or out of them and journalists are blocked from going inside the area to report of Human Rights abuses such as the alleged hiring of Colombian hit-men who have been targeting entire communities and who beat to death a 109 year old indigenous elder. 
Hali imezidi kuwa tata kutokana na uwepo wa vikosi vya jeshi katika eneo hilo na kulitenga eneo hilo na maeneo mengine ya nchi, hali ni mbaya kiasi kwamba makundi ya Wenyeji hawawezi kutembea kwa uhuru katika ardhi yao na wakati huohuo waandishi wa habari wanazuiwa kuingia ili kuripoti kuhusu vitendo vya uvunjaji wa Haki za Binadamu, hasa vile vinavyosemekana kufanywa na wauaji wa kukodi wa Kikolumbia ambao wamekuwa wakilenga kila mtu; hivi karibuni tu walimshambulia mpaka kumuua kikongwe wa miaka 109 mwenyeji wa eneo hilo.