The Nicaraguan Police, at the service of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, reported the capture of 24 settlers who had appropriated communal lands in the country’s Caribbean. The regime’s action comes after the repeated complaints made by territorial leaders about the invasion of their ancestral lands.
The environmentalist and president of Fundación del Río, Amaru Ruiz, explained that after the denunciations of the community members, an inter-institutional commission of the dictatorship was “achieved” to appear in Musawas, the capital of the Mayangnas, to find out about the situation that had become violent.
“The indigenous communities received the delegation with banners asking for justice and the sanitation of their territories. After the seizure of settlers from the Alal community, the indigenous people had captured about 4 settlers who were handed over to the Police,” Ruíz explained on his Twitter account.
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The environmentalist criticized that the official Police statement specifies other crimes, but does not address the real situation that is “invasion of communal territories” in various areas of the Nicaraguan Caribbean.
“The Police issued a statement indicating the capture of 24 people who were invading the Alal community. Although in the crimes indicated they do not speak of invasion of communal territories, “the environmentalist stressed.
The official note from the institution explains that the detainees are 22 men and 2 women. All were transferred to the “Jorge Navarro” National Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”, in Tipitapa.
In addition, it ensures that they will be placed under the order of the competent authorities for the crimes of organized crime, usurpation of private domain and environmental crimes. The settlers seized sharp and blunt objects such as machetes, sticks, and stones.
“Although it would be the first time that an arrest has occurred for the processes of invasion of indigenous territory. The Ortega Murillo regime has not had the political will to clean up the indigenous and Afro-descendant territories of Nicaragua,” warned Amaru Ruíz.
clashes with settlers
Prilaka reported that in the territory of Wangki Twi Tasba Raya actions are being carried out that seek the forced displacement of the Polo Lakia Sirpi community, and in the communities of Francia Sirpi, Santa Clara and Wisconsin “there are actions by a few community actors with political ties that seek to impose illegal leasing and sales of land.”
The situation in the indigenous territory of Twi Yahbra has become so tense that on January 17 there was a confrontation between settlers and the locals that left a settler dead and a community member injured after the invasion of the cultivation areas. .
On January 25, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned about the “intensification of conflicts” due to the invasion of settlers into the territories of indigenous communities in the North Caribbean of Nicaragua.
“OHCHR is receiving information of an intensification of conflicts over land and territory on the North Caribbean Coast and of tensions in indigenous communities due to the presence of settlers,” the UN office wrote on its Twitter account.
