Re: [Marxism] Another Indigenous Leader Assassinated in Colombia

["Daniel Read" <danreadfreelance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have any further sources I can consult in regards to this?

Cheers

Dan

2008/10/2 Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>:
>
> Another Indigenous Leader Assassinated in Colombia
> Written by Indigenous Regional Council of Cauca
> Monday, 29 September 2008
>
> Raul Mendoza, indigenous governor of the cabildo Peñón, from the
> municipality of Sotará, and former member of the council of chiefs of
> the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, and ex-president of the
> Association of Cabildos of Tierradentro, Nasa Uus, was assassinated
> in cold blood, at 4:00pm, on September 28, when he was in his room,
> in his home, located in the Barrio Solidaridad in the city of
> Popayán, Cauca's departmental capital.
>
> The indigenous governor was leading an important process connected to
> the campaign for the Liberation of Mother Earth, in the Los Naranjos
> estate, located in the municipality of Sotará, which had been claimed
> by the displaced Nasa community that was affected by the earthquake
> and avalanche that took place in Tierradentro in 1994. The Naranjos
> estate had not been properly handed over to the community, despite
> the fact that they had carried out every necessary step required by
> the INCODER, The Colombian Institute for Rural Development, to do so.
> This is the result of the negligence of the national government,
> which prevented the negotiation over the land titles through the
> Municipal Council for Rural Development.
>
> In the last few weeks, the Indigenous Governor Mendoza had made
> repeated pronouncements, before organisms of the state, as well as to
> the office dealing with indigenous issues, about ongoing threats
> against his life and the community as a whole, but to no avail. This
> situation of threats led the indigenous authorities, organized under
> the banner of CRIC, to release a missive on August 22, 2008, where
> they energetically rejected the ongoing threats, specifically three
> attacks against the community within the cabildo of "El Peñon",
> carried out by the public force (Cauca Police), in an area peacefully
> occupied by sectors of the community for the last three years.
>
> The death of an Indigenous Leader, like the one that occurred today,
> is part of a chain of assassinations that have been carried out in
> the last eight days against leaders of social organizations in the
> department of Cauca, like the case of Ever González of CIMA, and
> César Marín of the ANUC.
>
> Through these means, the ominous threats carried out in an anonymous
> fashion by paramilitaries who called themselves "campesinos
> embejucados" or "angry peasants," sent to the offices of the
> Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, ACIN on August
> 11th, are materializing. These same threats are also manifest in the
> irresponsible accusations made by the President of the Republic
> regarding social protests, for example, his offer of rewards to break
> the unity of the indigenous communities of Cauca, and his claim in a
> Community Council he held on September 27, where he linked the just
> struggles of the sugar cane workers, now on strike for over two
> weeks, with the guerillas of FARC.
>
> The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, CRIC, calls on human rights
> organizations, the international community, on neighboring countries
> who are fighting for a more just and democratic society, to remain on
> high alert and to express solidarity with the social processes that
> continue to get attacked by violence promoted from the spheres of the
> central government of Colombia.
>
> In the face of these acts, the indigenous people of Cauca remain firm
> in our commitment to work in Minga, in a state of social and
> community resistance, expressing in unison that the word will not be
> silenced and our march will not be stopped!
>
> CONSEJERÍA MAYOR – Council of Chiefs
>
> CONSEJO REGIONAL INDÍGENA DEL CAUCA –CRIC-
>
> Popayán, septiembre 28 de 2008
>
> This translation was provided by http://www.mamaradio.blogspot.com/.
>
>
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