Armed settlers attacked “in cold blood” the inhabitants of the Wilú indigenous communityin the territory Mayangna Sauni Asin the Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Coast, denounced organizations this Saturday, March 11.
The Center for Legal Assistance to Indigenous Peoples, Calpi, reported that the attack occurred around six in the morning when the men from the community went hunting, leaving mostly women and children in the area.
“A person who fled the place reported the death of five community members and the number of women and children killed is unknown, although he assures that there are several,” Calpi warned.
The teams from the Sauni As Ranger organization also received information about burned houses. “It is a community that is the victim of these armed attacks and, now, it is the second time. The entire population of Sauni As is on alert asking for help,” they denounced on their social networks.
Settlers kidnap indigenous community members
Calpi reported that prior to the attack, on Friday March 10, three Mayangna community members and two children who were members of the Mískitu indigenous people were kidnapped by non-indigenous settlers, when the victims were heading from Musawás to the Betlehem community in the Mayangna Sauni As territory, in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve.
The abductees were identified as canicio taylorevangelical pastor and teacher from the Musawás community, who was traveling with Antonio Gadeaand Lindolfo Charlieall members of the Musawás community, and two miskito children, whose names are unknown. “They were kidnapped when they were traveling on the Waspúk river to their work areas near the community of Betlehem.”
The Prilaka Community Foundation organization also reported that, since Friday, the kidnapping of community members by invaders was known.
“Today (Saturday) also, apparently, armed settlers have burned community houses in the community of Wilus, a community that was already affected with an attempted forced displacement in the recent past,” he agreed.
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The indigenous organization reiterated its call to the Nicaraguan regime and local authorities to “stop so much violence against indigenous communities, to disarm those who organize this type of action and urgently carry out sanitation.”
Three incidents with settlers
Recently, Calpi also reported a “third bloody incident” in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve.
According to the information, on the morning of March 6, in the Sabakitang sector, Kitangsar, seven kilometers downstream from the Waspuk, in the area of the Musawás community, Mayangna Sauni As territory, in the Bosawás Reserve, community members found to settlers in the indigenous plots, who when asking them to leave the place were attacked by the invaders.
According to the report, three Mayagna people were injured, including a woman. One of the victims was rushed to the Bonanza hospital after being shot in the chest.
The second case occurred in February in the sector known as Siete Casas in Alto Wangki, Bosawás Reserve, San José de Bocay municipality, Jinotega department. In a “clash with settlers” riot policeman Alexander Urbina Mora, originally from Alamikanbang, was killed.
The first incident was in January, in Cerro Asang Naini, Kahkah sector, Musawás Community, Mayangna Sauni As territory, when settlers kidnapped, beat and wounded the indigenous community Cardinios Frithzs Macario, 46, who was rescued with a knife. life.
Once again, the indigenous community members “begged” the authorities for the protection of their territories and their physical integrity.
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“Due to the systematic violence, which they have been subjected to for almost a decade, without the State of Nicaragua preventing, investigating or punishing the heavily armed non-indigenous settlers who invade their territories, the indigenous people are being forced to move from their territories. traditional”, denounced Calpi.
On February 13, 2022, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued the Resolution 9/2022through which it extended precautionary measures in favor of indigenous people from the Musawas, Suniwas and Wilú communities of the Mayangna Sauni As Territory, after identifying that they are in a situation of risk.
