Colombia: 'There Is No Peace Here': Afro-Indigenous on Colombia

Oct 5, 2017 | teleSUR
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Ensuring lasting peace means “protecting Afro-Colombian and Indigenous peoples' territorial and other collective rights,” said Charo Mina-Rojas. A slew of international human rights organizations, acting in response to a call for support from numerous ethnic groups in Colombia, have penned an open letter to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. They're urging the leader to provide security for Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities based mainly in the country's Amazon region and Pacific coastline, where armed right-wing groups continue to vye for territorial control after the demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and a recent ceasefire agreement between the government and the National Liberation Army, ELN.