The newsmagazine Semana reveals a new allegation of military sexual abuse of indigenous girls—the second one in a week: an alleged rape of several Nukak girls by soldiers in Guaviare in September 2019.
Timeline for entries tagged “Indigenous Communities”
A chronology of events related to peace, security, and human rights in Colombia.
June 22, 2020
Embera indigenous community leaders in Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, denounce that a group of soldiers raped a 12-year-old girl. The Prosecutor-General’s Office (Fiscalia) reports that seven soldiers have pleaded guilty, but 25 more “may have had knowledge of this act.” President Duque promises, “We will get to the bottom of the investigations, and if we have to inaugurate the use of life sentences with them, we will do so.” An Army spokesperson says that the institution will not be providing defense lawyers for the accused.
Ultra-conservative ruling party Senator María Fernanda Cabal, known for her incendiary statements and for being the wife of the president of Colombia’s cattlemen’s federation, tweets that the rape allegation might be a “judicial false positive” instigated by those who wish to defame the armed forces.
May 20, 2020
Following an online meeting with Cauca indigenous leaders, Interior Ministry officials unintentionally leave their microphones on. “How about those motherf******s, I don’t give an a** about them at this moment,” one can be heard saying. “They’re never going to change and they’re going to be miserable and stupid their whole lives. …I hate those sons of b*****s.”
April 22, 2020
Human rights groups denounce that Ángel Artemio Nastacuas Villareal, an Awá indigenous farmer in the Inda Zavaleta y La Brava reserve in Tumaco, Nariño, is killed by security forces amid protests against forced coca eradication.
April 4, 2020
Combat between the ELN and the Gulf Clan in rural Bojayá, Chocó, which began on March 28, forces the displacement of 193 indigenous people. 393 more people displace less than two weeks later.
