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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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ALL PARTS OF THIS SPECIAL
<The stench of death>
<Canada's murdered women and girls.>
Between 8 Nov 2021 and July 2022 AL Jazeera published a serial of
articles (except one i.e. an Al Jazeera team)
all by the Cree-Iroquois Canadian-French journalist Brandi
Morin about femicides of Canadian Indigenous women and girls and
of Indigenous children who were abducted from their parents houses and
brought to residential schoolsof which each word is so
heartbreaking that it takes a lot of courage to read the whole serial. Still I challenge you to do so! I divided it according to the
number of articles and quoted from them ending with a read more URL.:
Related:
CLICK HERE ON HOW TO READ
ME
The Guardian
25 July 2022
By Steven Grattan in Toribío, Colombia
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
<<'We must not show fear': Colombia's children learn to defend their way
of life – a photo essay.
It is the weekend, but the classroom is full of children bearing green
and red batons and adorned with scarves and ribbons. In the town of
Toribío, in south-west Colombia, the Indigenous Guard is teaching their
children how to avoid being recruited into militias, and defend their
lands in Cauca province, notorious as one of the country’s most
turbulent. The colours they carry represent <green for mother nature and
red for the blood shed by our elders>, says Angie Barrera, 11.
<The guard is important because they're in charge of making sure the
government or armed groups don't come here to take over, or kill us,>
she says. <They help to defend mother nature, our lives, children and
the community.> The guard – Kiwe Thegnas in Nasa Yuwe language – was
established 20 years ago in Cauca during the most intense years of
Colombia's civil conflict. Its more than 30,000 members pledge
non-violence and do not carry weapons. But today, their struggle in
their autonomous territories is more challenging than ever. After the
2016 deal struck with the government of president Juan Manuel Santos,
some rebel Farc fighters splintered off into dissident groups, which are
rife in Cauca, and continue to recruit young Indigenous people into
their ranks. Other criminal groups use Nasa autonomous lands to plant
marijuana or coca crops – the raw ingredient of cocaine – or illegally
mine for gold. At night, the power-ful lights of vast marijuana
plantations illuminate the mountainsides around Toribío. One of the
guard's main activities is to protect against armed groups in their
territories, at times they will also destroy coca fields, risking direct
confrontation with the gangs. Re-cently, incidents have become more
violent. A 2021 report by Bogota thinktank Indepaz claims at least 611
environmental defenders have been killed since the signing of the 2016
peace deal. Of these, 332 were Indigenous, the report said, and 204 took
place in Cauca. This year, 32 Indigenous people, including four members
of the guard, have been killed in Cauca, according to Juan Camayo Diaz,
co-ordinator of Tejido de Defensa de la Vida, a human rights group. The
killing of 14-year-old guard member Breiner David Cucuname, shot dead
when dissidents opened fire in his village on 14 January, caused horror
nationwide. A week after Cucuname's death, Jose Albeiro Camayo, a
renowned guard leader, was killed by dissidents near Las Delicias,
sparking further outrage. (LINK) At Cucuname's funeral at a hilltop
cemetery, children cried and hugged one another by his grave, decorated
with green and red para-phernalia. The valleys around are full of
sprawling coca plantations – highlighting the absence of any state
presence. President Ivan Duque's office did not reply to the Guardian's
questions, sending instead a link to a website outlining how at-risk
individuals could apply for a security scheme. At Cucuname’s funeral at
a hilltop cemetery, children cried and hugged one another by his grave,
decorated with green and red paraphernalia. The valleys around are full
of sprawling coca plantations – highlighting the absence of any state
presence. President Ivan Duque's office did not reply to the Guardian’s
questions, sending instead a link to a website outlining how at-risk
individuals could apply for a security scheme.
....
Role plays on how to carry a wounded person to safety, as well as how to
shelter during gunfire are acted out. <This could be very useful at any
stage in their lives,> says Edgar <Tumi> Tumina, 42, a senior guard
member who has witnessed multiple near fatal attacks and travels with a
security team. Tumi runs the school and is in constant fear for his
life, sleeping in a different place every night. Dissident groups resent
the guard's efforts to defuse and remove their landmines.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/25/colombia-children-learn-to-defend-their-way-of-life-indigenous-guard-a-photo-essay
And previously published by Cryfreedom.:
<Indigenous leader who defended the Amazon shot dead in Venezuela....
www.cryfreedom.net/stestench of
death-related11.htm
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