The 85 Embera families, who were in difficult subsistence conditions in Bogotá, arrived in their territories in Risaralda and Chocó, 25 of these families returned to the Gitó Dokabú shelter, in the villages of Kuna Gitó, Kemberdé, Yoraudo, Santa Marta and Chifa from Pueblo Rico, Risaralda.
While the others did the same towards Bagadó, in Alto Andágueda, territories of Aguasal, La Y, Oscordó, Conondo, Uripa, Masura, Cascajero, Mentuará, Cebedé and Río Colorado in the department of Chocó.
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According to Jhonatan Forero, coordinator of the entity’s Returns and Relocations group, there are still indigenous people settled in the capital of the country and so far they have no intention of returning to their ancestral territories.
“In this fifth phase of return that we carry out from the Victims Unit we extend the invitation to everyone; nevertheless, They ignored it and currently there are still between 400 and 500 indigenous people in these parks who do not want to return to their territories,” Forero complements that these strategies are carried out voluntarily, so it is their decision to stay in the country’s capital.
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For his part, Julio Nayazá, Mayor Governor of the Unified Indigenous Reservation, encouraged those who are still in the country’s capital to make the decision to return to their territories, “in the ancestral territories there are guarantees for all indigenous people who want to return to their homes, with their brothers”.
According to the Victims Unit, this is the fifth phase of Embera return that this entity performs, total 477 families have returned to their ancestral lands, 1,442 indigenousmainly to the municipalities of Chocó and Risaralda.
