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One dead, over 50 injured in Colombia as Indios clash with police
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 10 - 2008


Two days of clashes between indigenous peoples and
police have claimed at least one life and injured an estimated 50
people as native communities blockaded the main road between the
cities of Popayan and Cali, according to dpa.
The clashes on Wednesday alone injured 20 people, none of them
seriously, a source at the town hospital said. The death occurred on
Tuesday.
The demonstrators are demanding access to land and insisted that
the government put an end to the violence that indigenous leaders
suffer.
The ombudsman for the Risaralda province in centre-western
Colombia, Luis Carlos Leal, told the RCN radio network that the
clashes took place outside the town of Pueblorrico.
Leal said some 300 indigenous people had gathered there Tuesday,
and more joined since then.
Unrest already started brewing on Sunday, when some 8,000
indigenous people gathered near the town of Piendamo, in the Cauca
province. Their leaders insisted that Colombian President Alvaro
Uribe appear in person to explain unfulfilled promises of land and
ongoing violence against indigenous leaders.
Feliciano Valencia, human rights coordinator for indigenous
communities in the Cauca province, claimed that some 1,000 Indios
have been killed across the country since Uribe took office in 2002.
"This is our rejection of the extermination of indigenous
communities and to the reiterated lack of fulfillment of handouts of
land by various governments," Valencia said.
Police General Orlando Paez charged that leftist rebels of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had infiltrated the
protest, and noted that some Indios were caught planting explosives.
"This indigenous people have no idea about explosives. And yet we
have seen that they are planting explosives on a bridge upon orders
from FARC," Paez said Tuesday.
An indigenous leader, Daniel Pinacue, dismissed the allegations.
Officials often dismiss social protests in Colombia as instigated
by leftist rebels, allowing them to distract attention from demands
and justifying a harsher reaction by the state.
Reports from Quibdo, the capital of the Choco province in
north-western Colombia, said some 300 indigenous people joined the
protest Wednesday and peacefully occupied the facilities of the
ombudsman's office.


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