How José Rafael Meza Rivera, 20 years old, was identified the young indigenous man from the Nasa people murdered in the town center of Río Negro, in the municipality of Íquira, in western Huila.
Through a statement, the Regional Indigenous Council, CRIHU, rejected the murder of the community member, who was attacked by armed men when he was traveling on a motorcycle accompanied by another person.
Leonardo Home, political coordinator of the CRIHU, in dialogue with Blu Radio He said that the young Meza Rivera performed his duties as caretaker or guard of the reservation.
“From the Regional Indigenous Council, the 33 authorities and councils reject the vile murder of young José Rafael, in the ancestral territory in Río Negro, Huila. Today more than ever we call on the country, on the State institutions, to sit down and talk and to have a ceasefire.
with the armed groups so that there is peace in the territories so that it does not continue to claim more lives of our indigenous youth, farmers and marginalized sectors,” said Home.
The leader of the Regional Indigenous Council called on the national government and human rights entities that the security of the native peoples who are present in Huila be guaranteed.
“That is why we call on the High Commissioner for Peace, the government of change, the control entities, to urgently resume peace negotiations with the armed groups, because this war the only thing they are leaving us with are dead people, orphaned children, mothers without their children,” the indigenous spokesperson pointed out.
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