Colombia: Embera people strike deal for return of usurped lands —as terror continues | World War 4 Report

19.7.12

Colombia: Embera people strike deal for return of usurped lands —as terror continues | World War 4 Report: After hundreds of Embera Cham�and Embera Kat�o indigenous people from Colombia's departments of Choc�and Risaralda marched in Bogot�July 11, the city government met with their leaders and brokered a deal for them to return to their lands which were usurped some 10 years ago by paramilitary groups. Under the deal, the some 70 Embera families are to return to their lands within 60 days, accompanied by a delegation from the national government to assure their security. (Radio Caracol, El Espectador, Bogot�, July 12) But just days earlier, Embera leader Jos�Vicente Jarupia Domic�in Los Canales de Tierralta community, C�rdoba department, was assassinated in a hail of bullets fired by two men on a motorcycle. (El Universal, Cartagena, July 5)