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According to reports, approximately 150 men from the Esmad of the Police and the Army participated in the operation from 4:00 in the morning of this Wednesday, in a seized property.
The Cric explained that this land in the capital of the Amazon is currently managed by the Special Assets Society (SAE) and for months it has been claimed by “different communities that lack decent housing and guarantees for survival.”
Indigenous leaders assure that the court orders empowering the SAE to recover the invaded space had been suspended, but that for unknown reasons were reactivated by the mayor of Leticia, Jorge Luis Mendoza, “without seeking a concerted solution” and in return ordered a “violent eviction.”
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) supports their permanence on the property in which the delegate for Ethnic Affairs of the Attorney General’s Office demanded that the president promote a dialogue with a focus on human rights and that “refrain from using force in police operations of forced eviction that may harm the constitutional rights of families”.
“These facts show how the Colombian government does not solve the most heartfelt problems of our peoples, however it uses the excess of public force to respond to the needs that the people demand,” reproached the Cric.
During the operation there was a confrontation in which children, adolescents, pregnant women, older adults and victims of the conflict were affected.
An unspecified group of people were injured and affected by tear gas. However, the Cric assured that there is two of those indigenous people who are seriously injured.
For all these reasons, the indigenous leaders asked the Attorney General’s Office to take over the investigations of Mayor Mendoza and the municipal representative, because they consider that he was present at the operation and “omitted his duty.”
Throughout this Wednesday the National Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (Opiac) reported that three people, a minor, a pregnant mother and an older adult, had actually died, but later this was denied by that same organization, the Cric and the Police.
In fact, Colonel Jorge Rodríguez, commander of the department’s Police, quoted by Caracol Radio, said that he also there are “4 members of the National Police injured in their faces and limbs”.
These are some of the images that have been known of the operation:
At this time, Esmad evicts more than 200 families, 625 people, including children and indigenous people, from a settlement in Leticia, on the Brazilian border, a lot seized from drug trafficking in the custody of the SAE. There are wounded and detained. They are displaced and affected by a pandemic.@rcnradio pic.twitter.com/6fqza2Ef6q
– Jairo Tarazona (@JairoReport) October 28, 2020
Displaced people, indigenous people and people affected by Covid 19, are evicted at this time by Esmad in Leticia from the invaded lot of the Society of Special Assets. They denounce that pregnant women and children were affected by the gases and stun bombs.@rcnradio pic.twitter.com/fKtyjQTTcF
– Jairo Tarazona (@JairoReport) October 28, 2020
Again @PoliceColombia and the Esmad attack and fire their weapons against the citizens. This time the victims are the indigenous communities of Leticia, in the Amazon. @ONIC_Colombia pic.twitter.com/wehMPcL4x3
– Sebastian Escobar Uribe (@SebastianDDHH) October 28, 2020
E | ESMAD intervenes, evicts and threatens more than 137 indigenous families in Leticia, Amazonas, at this time. They report several seriously injured. The CRIC reported three people dead, including a girl. #SOSColombia@IvanDuque you are rubbish #gifted pic.twitter.com/A3dhaYZC7d
– Osorio tattoo (@ Federic91726904) October 28, 2020
At this time in Leticia, Amazonas, the ESMAD of the @PoliceColombia attacks indigenous communities.@CIDH
pic.twitter.com/rg31XodrRO– Ties of Dignity (@FLazosDignidad) October 28, 2020
#Colombia 🇨🇴: About 625 indigenous families living in Leticia, Amazonas, were violently evicted by ESMAD in the middle of the pandemic.
According to eyewitnesses, an old woman and a child died after inhaling tear gas fired by the soldiers. pic.twitter.com/DThp8LVRvu
– Anonymous 🍀 T.Colombia 🏴 (@AnonNews_Col) October 28, 2020
600 indigenous families evicted in Leticia, use ESMAD in the Amazon. The only thing that the narco state brings to the regions is repression and death. pic.twitter.com/4KMYJSxzzc
– Camilo Álvarez B (@CamiloAlvarezB) October 28, 2020
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