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While the Indigenous Minga advances in which the Nasa communities of northern Cauca hope to meet with President Iván Duque, they recycle old misinformation on social networks to point out the indigenous guerrillas.
“What a rare variety of yucca the indigenous people grow,” says a Facebook post in which they show a photo of two members of the Indigenous Guard with tatucos (mortar spell grenades) in their hands. The post, published by the Huila columnist Luis Humberto Tovar Trujillo, has been shared on Facebook almost a thousand times and has been seen by more than 27,000 people.
The same image was published on October 8 on Facebook by Samuel Ángel, lawyer and executive director of the Movement of Catholics Solidarity, who wrote: ‘That “indigenous” take out the Army with machetes, in the name of their indigenism, that is not has presentation. Here we have terrorists and guerrillas making parties with the mask of ‘indigenismo’. “Those” must bear the full weight of justice and state coercion. “
It has also been shared on Twitter by people like Marco Fidel Ramírez, who calls himself the Councilor for the Family, who on October 11 wrote in his trill: “These“ peaceful ”members of the indigenous minga are already marching to Bogotá. They say that they are “our elders”, and as we can see, they come with their message of “love and peace”.
Another of the people who published the photo is the journalist from the Otracara Sixto Pinto.
However, this image, which has also been disseminated on social networks in previous years, including by former president Álvaro Uribe, is taken out of context.
In Colombiacheck we had verified several images, including the one shared in recent days, in December of last year when a delegation from the Indigenous Guard arrived in Bogotá to support the National Strike.
On that occasion, we explained that the images, used to point them out of drug traffickers and guerrillas, had been taken in 2012 when the Indigenous Guard dismantled some Farc coves on the road to Toribío.
These photos were taken by the Association of Indigenous Cabildos del Norte del Cauca, Acin, and by La Nación photojournalist Sergio Reyes in July 2012.
On that date, the indigenous people of northern Cauca declared themselves in a Permanent Assembly and requested the departure of the armed groups from their territory, due to the violence they suffered. The populations were in the midst of the crossfire of the fighting between the FARC and the Army.
This situation was denounced by different media such as Verdad Abierta, BBC, La Silla Vacia, Semana, El Espectador and El Heraldo, which published reports about the tragedy that the Nasa people were experiencing.
For the verification published last year in Colombiacheck, we contacted Guiovany Yule, political promoter of the Indigenous Regional Council of Cauca, Cric, (the ACIN is one of the council associations that belongs to the Cric). Yule told us that the images had been taken during “activities of the exercise of territorial control in which we dismantled the Farc coves in the indigenous territories” on the road between Toribío and Santander de Quilichao during a visit of the then president Juan Manuel Santos.
Likewise, we carried out a reverse search of the shared images and found that it had been used in press releases to talk about the seizure carried out by the indigenous people of tatucos themselves.
The photo had also been published in July 2012 on the website of the Colombian NGO Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris. In the publication entitled “Cauca: A new stage of the war?” This image appears with the following caption: “Indigenous people from Cauca on the road leading to Toribío remove mortars.” The photo credit says it is from Acin Communication Fabric.
In our note last year we had said that this image had already been verified in March and April 2019 by the Empty Chair and AFP Factual when it was used to misinform during the Indigenous Minga, in which the Nasa protested the non-compliance by the Government of previous agreements.
On that occasion, the AFP verification team contacted Eduin Capable, coordinator of the ACIN human rights area, who confirmed that the image was taken by that organization in 2012 in an area near Toribío. Capaz told them that the projectiles that appear there were found by the natives during the “sweeping actions” carried out by the Indigenous Guard to expel the FARC guerrillas from their territory.
In addition, the image had been shared in January 2018 on Twitter by former president and senator Álvaro Uribe.
So once again we classify the Facebook post as false because although the image is real it has been taken out of context to point to the indigenous guerrillas.
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