Wayuu group in Tamaquito, in Barrancas was once prioritized through the Land Restitution Unit

The Wayuu indigenous group of Tamaquito I, situated at the left financial institution of the Ranchería River, within the rural space of ​​the municipality of Barrancas, L. a. Guajira, was once prioritized through the Land Restitution Unit, which seeks to revive territorial rights to the 278 households that are living there on greater than 478 hectares of this space.

This entity indicated that the group was once prioritized after the tips accumulated within the final meeting the place the characterization procedure was once introduced through evidencing results similar to dispossession, abandonment, environmental, social and cultural injury amongst others that save you get right of entry to, enjoyment and delight in the territory.

On this sense, the Directorate of Ethnic Affairs, performed the case research discovering displacement of the indigenous group, which misplaced get right of entry to to its sacred and meals safety puts. In addition to nice violations in their skill to self -supply, to the conclusion of its ancestral and cultural practices.

“The guidelines equipped on this characterization record will function a basic proof for the presentation of the call for for restitution of territorial rights in choose of the Tamaquito I group, which shall be introduced to the civil judges specialised in land restitution, throughout the framework of what’s ordered in Decree Legislation 4633 of 2011,” stated the URT.

He recalled that it was once for the 12 months of 2003, when the intensification of the violence that individuals of the group started had been sufferers of harassment, torture, danger and intimidation, through paramilitary teams. The abandonment that was once introduced in Tamaquito I is because of threats that the AUC made to the lads of the group.

The territorial director of Cesar Guajira, Claudia Mireya Manotas Mejía, stressed out that with indigenous communities they have got labored laborious and there are emblematic circumstances associated with the restitution procedure. “Within the DT about 16,282 hectares on ethnic course had been restored, this incorporated in each departments”

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