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Violence endangers Colombia’s indigenous groups - Part One
Mon, 12/21/2009 - 13:00
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In Colombia, There are 87 indigenous groups native to the country. Thirty-four of them are facing extinction according to that country’s supreme court. Human rights groups say that fighting between the Colombian Army and the FARC rebels is pushing hundreds of indigenous groups into urban areas where they face poverty and where they begin to lose their way of life.
In the first part of a series on Colombia´s endangered tribes, Manuel Rueda visited the Jiw people in the Guaviare province.
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Caught in what is sometimes
Caught in what is sometimes described as the world’s oldest internal armed conflict, thousands of indigenous people in Colombia have fled their lands to escape the brutal treatment of warring armed groups. These people live only a simple life and neither financial freedom nor pleasure in life shows no trace at all. The struggle to survive and preserve ancient traditions in cities and towns far away from their homes is an often-unnoticed casualty of the plight of this second largest group of internally displaced people. I hope the government will take serious action regarding this matter. We need these people in order to preserve our ancient culture and history.