REPAIR COMPLAINTS TO FARMERS TO RETURN TO THEIR LANDS ARE BEING
judicialized They claim that farmers are returning to their lands
By: arico the international human rights organizations to express their views on the subject.
Two weeks after the peasant community of Las Pavas, in southern Bolivar department, to undertake an action back to their farms to the national government to demand respect for the rights they have to land restitution, reported that its leaders have been the subject of prosecutions for various offenses such as illegal land occupation and slander.
The Chamber representative Ivan Cepeda, who accompanied the farmers as a guarantee, expressed concern and said "These prosecutions leaders seek to turn peasants persecuted arbitrary, by asking for the respect of their rights and reclaim what was taken from them. "
congressman called on the international community and human rights organizations to react to the events that have occurred in the country against the people leading the land restitution process, who are victims of persecution, murder and all kinds intimidation.
"I make the same call to the authorities to provide the necessary guarantees to ensure the enforceability of the rights of these people, and to promote and engage respectively, the investigations that may apply in this case, in which they have committed multiple human rights violations and breaches of discipline, "he reiterated Cepeda.
According to the congressman, farmers in Las Pavas organized in the Association of Peasants in Buenos Aires ASOCAB, demanding that the Ministry of Agriculture will restore more than 3 000 hectares of which were stolen by the paramilitary activities in 2003. These lands are now in the hands of oil palm consortium led by Jose Ernesto Macias and Alfonso Dávila Abondano (Daabon Group), which refuses to restore these lands.
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