"To lose our land is to lose ourself": Indigenous people and forced displacement in Colombia (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

"To lose our land is to lose ourself": Indigenous people and forced
displacement in Colombia

Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 04 Mar 2010

>From the mountains of the Sierra Nevada to the Amazonian jungle,
Colombia is home to 90 different indigenous groups, one of the
wealthiest ethnic diversity anywhere in the world. But many of these
groups are very vulnerable to the country's ongoing armed conflict and
resulting forced displacement. As a result, up to a third of them are
at risk of disappearing or of extinction, according to Colombia's
Constitutional Court.

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