Last August 26, 2009, at 5 AM, the Awa people of the Gran Rosario Indigenous Shelter (Tumaco), were visited by criminals who shot indiscriminately two houses. In this first event, 8 persons lost their lives, among them three children of 1, 8 and 10 years old. Four other persons were shot death afterward risen the number to 12 victims. (more…)
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Awa children - Photo ONIC
Indigenous authorities of Colombia and Ecuador gave an ultimatum to Farc
A new strong condemnation to Farc rose this month after the communist guerrilla declared that some indigenous persons of the Awa communities have been executed because “they were spies of the army“.
Awa is the name of an ancestral people of the southwest of Colombia, near the boarder with Ecuador, in Nariño State. To know the level of development of the Awa people is easy: it is enough to know that this month they were victims of an authentic mass killing. The authorities and the army, willing to reach the place of the events, had to wait, because roads were in bad conditions and the guerrillas planted mines in the area. Short after Farc announced that the executions was done “not because they were indigenous, but because they were collaborators of the army” and, thus, “actors in the conflict.”
The announcement was, of course, an excellent element in the campaign of propaganda against Farc guerrillas, although it was forgotten very quickly that, for example, troops of the army killed last December Edwin Legarda, the husband of Aida Quilcue Vivas, top leader of the Indigenous Regional Council of Cauca (CRIC). (more…)
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