Bogotá: The ancestral peoples in Colombia are also part of the sectors mobilized against systematic violence, the economic measures of the government of Iván Duque that violate the rights of the population and for peace, Prensa Latina publishes.
In different parts of the country, with their original customs, they express their rejection of militarization, abuses in the countryside, exclusion and mismanagement of the pandemic.
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) makes an urgent call to the intentional community, the brothers of Abya Yala and the democrats of the world to continue to express publicly and through the respective diplomatic channels their concern about the acts of violence in this South American nation.
In addition, so that they will intercede with the Colombian government to stop the war treatment given to social protest.
The ONIC also requests that the verification missions be reinforced that allow the gathering of truthful information on the vulnerability and the multiple effects on the human rights to the life and integrity of all Colombians.
The group of ancestral peoples of Colombia, denounced the violence in the country unleashed by the ‘disproportionate actions of the National Police and in particular by the Esmad (Anti-riot Squads).
‘We have suffered for more than 60 years the rigors of war, in addition to the effects that the pandemic leaves in every way now, we see with pain how the whole country becomes a victim, because what is threatened is democracy. ‘, he emphasizes.
He adds that Colombia is a society that has bet on peace and at the same time emphasizes that the acts of vandalism that have occurred during the protest do not represent them.
“Nor can we accept the lack of empathy of this government and its inability to understand that inequality, hunger and poverty also lead to despair and hopelessness, much less naturalize that the response to these events is state violence,” he remarks. .
It warns that indigenous peoples and nations, one of the most determined actors in the unequivocal construction of a peaceful, inclusive, democratic society with social justice and one of the most violated sectors since the signing of the peace accords, have the authority. moral to demand the demilitarization of cities.
This is an inescapable requirement for a true social dialogue to be opened, which must summon all the organizations and sectors that have participated in the national strike that began on April 28, he emphasizes.
It demands that Congress, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Ombudsman’s Office act within the framework of their constitutional and legal duties and investigate the events that mourn the lives of Colombians that corroborate the urgency of a profound reform that dismantles the Doctrine of Military Security according to which the people are an internal enemy.