Communal members of the municipality of Toribío, in northern Cauca, reported the kidnapping of community member Eyber Danilo Poto Pazú during an armed raid carried out by dissidents of the Dagoberto Ramos front of the FARC.
According to the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council, those responsible for this incident are the commanders alias “Pájaro” and alias “Avelino Ul”, who detained the young indigenous man to take him to an unknown point in northern Cauca after detaining him when the victim was traveling through the El Tierrero sector.
As a result of these events, as well as the murder of several indigenous and community representatives in recent days, the organization that brings together the ancestral peoples of this area of the country denounces before the national government, national and international human rights organizations that the peoples indigenous people in Cauca are in an obvious HUMANITARIAN CRISIS due to the effects generated by the armed conflict.
And although they have always been committed to PEACE, making countless calls for dialogue, these have not been heard or attended to, in such a way that so far this year, 2024, there are already 421 indigenous people who are victims of different effects within the framework of the armed conflict. , violations that have been reported in different regional, national and international settings.
In fact, and as reported by community leader and Human Rights Defender Joe Sauca, in the department it is public knowledge which armed actors outside the law are present in this area of the country, causing harm to indigenous communities.
“Seven armed structures have a presence in the department, that is public knowledge, but their violent actions against our communities continue, hence the repeated call to the national government and social organizations to stop all these attacks,” Joe added. Sauca.
For this reason, and as one of the many ways to prevent their children and young people from ending up inside this armed organization outside the law, the authorities of the indigenous communities prepare their children and young people to become aware of the importance to study and get ahead through legal means and not join organizations that represent the destruction of their lives.
Finally, the humanitarian representative and indigenous leader Joe Sauca made it clear that in order to confront all these kinds of attacks and aggressions, they maintain their policy of civil resistance, resorting exclusively to the stick and the word when it comes to protecting themselves from legal or illegal armed actors.
