Official Statement from the Indigenous Movement of Panama
Dear brothers and sisters from various organizations and communities of the world that fight against violence, against war, and against hunger - today we wish to mobilize against the War on Indigenous Peoples.
On Saturday the 18th of January four Indigenous Kuna leaders, were violently tortured and assassinated by the Autonomous Defense Units of Colombia (AUC). These Indigenous spiritual leaders, are medicine men that hold the principal knowledge of our oral history, poets of truth, knowledgeable in medicine, the holders of our cultural heritage, the soul of our community, and are the maximum authority of the Paya and Pucuro communities.
Four pillars of our community have been killed; if we compare this to western culture it is to say that our library of congress, our chief justice of magistracy, our minister of culture, our Nobel Peace Prize winners were killed.
Dear brothers and sisters from various organizations and communities of the world that fight against violence, against war, and against hunger - today we wish to mobilize against the War on Indigenous Peoples.
On Saturday the 18th of January four Indigenous Kuna leaders, were violently tortured and assassinated by the Autonomous Defense Units of Colombia (AUC). These Indigenous spiritual leaders, are medicine men that hold the principal knowledge of our oral history, poets of truth, knowledgeable in medicine, the holders of our cultural heritage, the soul of our community, and are the maximum authority of the Paya and Pucuro communities.
Four pillars of our community have been killed; if we compare this to western culture it is to say that our library of congress, our chief justice of magistracy, our minister of culture, our Nobel Peace Prize winners were killed.