Displaced Awa families after the August Massacre. Photo G. Valdivieso, United Nations Refugee Agency.
A criminal gang known as Los Cucarachos is the first suspect of the massacre of 12 persons of the Awa people of last August 26. It is the conclusion of the Technical Investigation unit (CTI) and published by El Espectador. Miguel Guasalusán Guanga, Danial Guasalusán Rodríguez and Fredy Cortez García are the possible assassins, according with the police department. Few days after the massacre, the Prosecutor arrested Miguel Pai in Putumayo. Pai is an Awa himself and a member of another gang: Los Rastrojos.
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There are almost 50 million of Colombians living in a huge territory that is the size of Spain, France and Portugal combined. The half of the territory is almost empty of people and occupied by stunning jungles that are a great ecological reserve of the planet: the Amazons. Among those 50 million Colombians, there are many of them who are very fortunate and other groups are almost ignored from the national life. Some of them are known as the Awa people.
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Criminal gangs were involved in the Awa murders according to the last reports of the general attorney Guillermo Mendoza. In his report, he refrained to mention a possible participation of army forces in the killing of 12 persons of the Awa indigenous shelter, 4 children included. On August 31 the authorities captured Jairo Miguel Pai, a member of the same Awa people, who became the main suspect in the killings.
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After a week of the second massacre of the year against the Awa indigenous community, near 300 families flee the region for new threats to their lives. The new displacement was reported by the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). The people decided to abandon the Gran Rosario indigenous shelter and take refuge in other municipalities.
The Colombian Prosecutor captured in the Putumayo State, at the east of Nariño, a man named Jairo Miguel Pai Nastapuas, as the alleged responsible of the murder of 12 persons of the Awa indigenous community of Gran Rosario, near Tumaco. According to the police report, Pai, the leader of a criminal group, is an extorsionist and a kidnapper and ordered the killing of the indigenous.
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The Organization of the American States condemned the mass killing of indigenous of the Awa people in Colombia under the action of the Farc guerrilla this month. OAS asked also to Farc the devolution of the corps in a tragic event that began when a group of that guerrilla executed several persons at the beginning stating that they were “informants of the army.” The international organization of the Western-hemisphere nations asked also investigations and actions to punish this crime against human rights.
The OAS Colombian ambassador, Camilo Ospina, thanked the firm act of condemnation of what he called a mad action in the mass killing of the Awa people, an indigenous group that lives at the southwest of Colombia, in a jungle and undeveloped zone of the Nariño State and at the west of San Juan de Pasto.
Last 18th February, the General Secretary of OAS, the Chilean José Miguel Insulza, expressed his condemnation against the action of the Farc guerrillas against a group of Awa indigenous. After the killing, Farc expressed that they were “executed” because they were helping the army. But the Colombian government concluded that the action was a way to “clean” the jungle territory as a “path” to move cocaine.
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