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Sep
10
2020

Green light to start the return of Santa Cruz indigenous community, in La Primavera (Vichada)

This population suffered forced displacement by actions of different armed actors since the mid-1990s.

Vichada›La Primavera

In the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice of the municipality of La Primavera (Vichada), the concept of security was approved unanimously, which allows processing the process of return and relocation of the Santa Cruz indigenous community, to properties in the sector known as Llano Alto.

This community, made up of indigenous people of the Sikuani ethnic group, began their return voluntarily after settling for more than two decades near the urban area of ​​the municipality of La Primavera and given the economic difficulties they have faced due to the COVID-pandemic 19.

The entities of the National System of Attention and Comprehensive Reparation to Victims (SNARIV), for their part, endorsed the concept of security in order to provide accompaniment to the process of return of this community to the territory that it claims as its ancestral and historically, but that was awarded to other people and whose possession now depends on the decision of a judge.

"We continue with the desire to support the Santa Cruz community, understanding the degree of violation of their rights, but without entering to violate the rights of the other people who now occupy the property", said the mayor of La Primavera, Fernando Duque.

In this regard, the director of the Unit in Meta and Llanos Orientales, Carlos Pardo Alezones, warned that the territory is currently occupied by people who do not belong to the Santa Cruz community, a situation that could generate violence. However, given the decision made, he added that the formulation of the Return and Relocation Plan should be carried out while the judicial process on the property of the property advances.

"Sanitation of the territory will be one of the actions that are established in the return and relocation plan", he said.

The Santa Cruz indigenous community was displaced by the Farc in the mid-90s, and years later, in an attempt to return, by the paramilitaries.

(End/CAA/CMC/LMY) 

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