The Venezuelan NGO Fundaredes denounced this Monday that three indigenous people from the Atabapo municipality, Amazonas state, in the south of the country, were injured this Saturday by alleged “members of the irregular group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who tried to evade an indigenous control point and they intended to reach the Yapacana mines».
“Last Saturday, April 23, in the morning hours, three indigenous people from the Súpiro checkpoint in the Atabapo municipality (Amazonas) were injured when they wanted to prevent a Colombian ship carrying merchandise from continuing its journey down the Orinoco River,” he explained. the NGO in its Twitter account.
#MonitorFundaRedes | Last Saturday #23Apr In the morning hours, three indigenous people from the Súpiro checkpoint in the Atabapo municipality (Amazonas) were injured when they tried to prevent a Colombian ship carrying merchandise from continuing on the Orinoco River. pic.twitter.com/5Ayy7VWNB5
— FundaREDES (@FundaREDES_) April 26, 2022
Fundaredes denounced that the attackers came from Colombia
Fundaredes reported that the boats of the alleged attackers came from Colombia when they tried to cross the alcabala installed by the indigenous people called “territorial guards” and that they created these checkpoints to defend their territories.
“The indigenous people assure that these sales tax, made up of groups called ‘territorial guards’, were created to defend their spaces due to the situation of vulnerability experienced by the country’s indigenous communities,” the NGO pointed out.
The NGO explained that two of the victims were transferred to the María Garrido hospital in Atabapo, while the third was taken to the city of Puerto Inírida, in the department of Guainía in Colombia, to receive medical attention in the locality.
Fundaredes recalled that it is necessary to implement “policies that allow attention to ancestral populations” and accused the State of not providing “the guarantees and protection of the human rights of these communities.”
The same organization denounced, on March 22, the death of four Yanomami indigenous people in Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas state, in the south of the country, as a result of a confrontation that took place on March 20, between members of this ethnic group and soldiers from the Air Force in Parima B, Alto Orinoco municipality.
One month after these events, Fundaredes denounced secrecy in the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office and other organizations of the Caribbean country in this regard.
