{"id":44887,"date":"2020-07-13T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/44887-how-covid-19-can-derail-reparations-in-colombia-amazon.html"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:03:35","slug":"how-covid-19-can-derail-reparations-in-colombia-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/44887-how-covid-19-can-derail-reparations-in-colombia-amazon.html","title":{"rendered":"How Covid-19 can derail reparations in Colombia\u2019s Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating the entire Amazon basin, just as one of Colombia\u2019s most ambitious redress programs for indigenous victims in this remote rainforest region is poised to kick off. A program that is the result of an unprecedented four-year conversation between 26 indigenous communities and the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Colombia began redressing victims of its armed conflict several years before the 2016 peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) gave these efforts an extra boost. Since a landmark 2011 bill that recognized victims of the armed conflict, the country has worked on a number of ways to redress them, including economic compensation, land restitution and psycho-social rehabilitation. With Colombia just having crossed the threshold of 9 million registered victims \u2013 or a fifth of its population \u2013 last month, but only having compensated 13,8% of eligible victims so far, there is growing <a href=\"en\/reparations\/42712-more-time-to-redress-colombia-victims-question-is-how.html\">political consensus<\/a> that more than 10 years will be needed.<\/p>\n<p>This is most evident in regions historically outside the state\u2019s radar. Colombia\u2019s Amazon is one of the best preserved in South America in part because the 52-year-long conflict kept its rainforests isolated from the rest of the country. But paradoxically, this fed the idea that war never reached its inhabitants. Amid widespread concern over a surge in deforestation, this is being questioned today. As Justice Info <a href=\"en\/tribunals\/national-tribunals\/41553-war-park-rangers-hopes-colombia-transitional-justice.html\">told<\/a>, scientists and lawyers documented war\u2019s effects on national parks and park rangers, and are lobbying the transitional justice to open an environmental case.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s government also spearheaded an ambitious reparations plan for indigenous communities living in the Amazon, which is ready to kick off after four years of negotiations with them. But now Covid-19 has hit the Amazon basin especially hard and threatens to derail those efforts.<\/p>\n<h3>An unprecedented conversation with 26 indigenous groups<\/h3>\n<p>In 2015, indigenous communities began conversations with officials from the Victims\u2019 Unit \u2013 the Government institution in charge of redress \u2013 on what reparations could look like. They had one bold request though: they wanted a single collective decision-making process that would bring together all the indigenous peoples from a department the size of Bulgaria, some of whom live 580 kilometres away from each other.<\/p>\n<p>An unprecedented conversation began with a core group of 40 leaders from 16 indigenous organisations, including 14 associations of traditional indigenous authorities (a legal figure known as AATIs) and two urban councils in the city of Leticia. In total, they represent 38,000 persons from 26 different indigenous groups. Just getting together was a logistical feat, in a region with no highways and where many had to travel for days by speedboat. Some even had to fly to Bogota, the Colombian capital atop the Andes, to fly back south to Leticia, on the banks of the Amazon river.<\/p>\n<p>To complicate matters further, these communities weren\u2019t even registered as victims. Between 2017 and 2018, officials visited all of the indigenous reservations spread out across the Amazon River and its two major tributaries, documenting how they were affected by war. Leaders also reached an agreement with the Interior Ministry to ensure that the legally mandatory prior consultation, in place to protect ethnic minorities, would take place simultaneously. Communities even pitched in 60,000 dollars from their own pockets.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A family of Colombian Huitoto wearing chirurgical masks\" src=\"media\/Colombia_indigenous-family-covid19_Tatiana-de-Nevo-AFP.jpg\" alt=\"A family of Colombian Huitoto wearing chirurgical masks\" \/><figcaption>A family of Colombian Huitoto, in Leticia. The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, some of whom are in danger of extinction. \u00a9 Tatiana de Nevo \/ AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>An invisible war in the Amazon<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere was a general idea that these towns received victims who fled from other places, but that none had been victimised directly. Some people still don\u2019t understand why we conceived such an ambitious outreach effort, as they still think the armed conflict never arrived there,\u201d says Yenny Beltr\u00e1n, member of the Victims\u2019 Unit ethnical team.<\/p>\n<p>Group sessions have revealed that large numbers of youngsters were forcibly recruited by FARC, sexual violence against indigenous women was common, communities living near gold and coltan deposits were attacked, and their radio and health equipment were frequently plundered by rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Their tales are revealing a pattern of violence that had been invisible until now. For most Colombians, violence in the Amazon is a page in history books telling how rubber extraction in the early 1900s \u2013 spearheaded by Peruvian tappers but tolerated by Colombian authorities \u2013 boomed on the back of human rights violations against thousands of natives. Their plight was famously denounced by Irish diplomat Roger Casement, prompting a parliamentary inquiry in the United Kingdom against the Peruvian Amazon Company \u2013 or Arana House \u2013 that effectively put it out of business. Although Juan Manuel Santos was the first Colombian president to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mincultura.gov.co\/prensa\/noticias\/Paginas\/2012-10-12_50225.aspx\">ask for forgiveness<\/a> for these events in 2012, few political leaders have acknowledged that much violence against them continued over the next century.<\/p>\n<h3>Indigenous forms of redress<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, during 2019, each organisation settled on what specific forms of collective redress are meaningful to them, in line with the peace accord\u2019s idea of prioritising forms of reparations that can reach entire groups and not just individuals. They included support for traditional medicine and rituals, strengthening native languages and oral transmission of elders\u2019 knowledge, repairing the large huts with thatched roofs \u2013 known as <em>malokas<\/em> \u2013 at the centre of community life, and aiding territorial governance with boats and radio equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at which community processes were interrupted by conflict, seeking to continue them and choosing measures that strengthen what we call the pollen of life, or that which can avoid that our thinking and words die,\u201d says Rufina Rom\u00e1n, a Uitoto indigenous leader from the Araracuara canyon on the Caquet\u00e1 River. Her organisation Crima, comprising 1.800 persons from the Uitoto, Andoke, Nonuya and Muinane peoples, focused on traditional dances, language weeks and finalising their \u2018life plan\u2019, their community\u2019s roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>Many ethnic groups whose numbers have been dwindling focused on reviving their native tongues. \u201cWe have nowhere to turn to when a child is investigating our dialect or when an adult has a question. At most, 10% of us here speak either of our two dialects,\u201d says Jarvis Bernanza, leader of the Pani organisation grouping five communities further downriver, on the border of Cahuinari National Park. One of their key projects is creating Bora-Spanish and Mira\u00f1a-Spanish dictionaries.<\/p>\n<p>Although these Amazonian communities are just a fraction of Colombia\u2019s collective reparations program (which totals 578 groups, 65% of which belong to ethnic minorities), the entire process is helping rethink what it means to redress indigenous peoples. \u201cIt\u2019s been a learning curve for both. For them because the Colombian state often comes to us without understanding our context. For us because we see political will and the possibility of reaching agreements,\u201d Rom\u00e1n says.<\/p>\n<h3>A pandemic in the Amazon<\/h3>\n<p>Covid-19\u2019s arrival in the Amazon has already delayed the beginning of these reparations, and poses an existential threat to many of these communities. Proximity and river connections with Brazil, the regional epicentre of the pandemic, have meant that the Amazon department has seen 2% of nationwide deaths and confirmed cases, albeit being home to less than 0,1% of Colombia\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most worrisome, it\u2019s threatening communities <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/adminonic\/docs\/palabra_dulce_aire_de_vida\">deemed at risk<\/a> of physical and cultural extinction. Two of the 31 indigenous people who have died from Covid-19 hail from ethnic groups with less than 300 members. One was Antonio Bol\u00edvar, an Ocaina elder who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/the-death-of-antonio-bolivar-an-indigenous-elder-in-the-amazon-rainforest\">became nationally famous<\/a> for his role in the Oscar-nominated film <em>Embrace of the Serpent<\/em>, in which he played a shaman who guided scientists Theodor Koch-Gr\u00fcnberg and Richard Evans Schultes in the Amazon. He was one of the last 285 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onic.org.co\/pueblos\/1129-ocaina\">remaining Ocainas<\/a> in Colombia, although a larger group can still be found in Peru. Another elder who died was one of 197 Colombian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onic.org.co\/pueblos\/1147-tariano\">Tarianos<\/a>, although some 1,900 live in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>At least four other ethnic groups with less than 500 members have also seen confirmed cases, including the Jiw, the Karapana, the Yagua and \u2013 of most concern \u2013 the 71-member Matap\u00ed who live on the Mirit\u00ed-Paran\u00e1 and Apaporis rivers. In total, 998 cases had been detected among 40 different peoples <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMT_ONIC\/status\/1276691502589251589\/photo\/1\">as of June 26th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"boorder: 1px solid #ccc;\"><span id=\"jsTweet1276691502589251589\" class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-twitter articleTweet\" tweetID=\"1276691502589251589\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cAn example of how we can work with authorities\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Even though communities on the Amazon River have been the hardest hit, the novel coronavirus has also been detected in remote jungle areas further north. On July 2 three cases were confirmed in La Chorrera, a settlement on the Igar\u00e1-Paran\u00e1 river north of the Peruvian border, where another of the 16 organisations is based. Two persons were flown to Pasto for medical care, as there are no critical care units in the region.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the pandemic, some are already tinkering with their redress priorities. \u201cThe disease has not been able to come in because our indigenous guard has been working hard to prevent it, checking that people use masks, making sure the seven persons with symptoms remained in isolation and controlling that no outsiders come near,\u201d says Romelio Pinto, whose organisation Azcaita groups 3,700 mainly Tikuna Indians only kilometres away from hard-hit Leticia. In his view, their decision to allocate redress funds to ensure food for non-armed guards\u2019 families, allowing them to work on Covid-19 prevention, has paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Crima, in the mid-Caquet\u00e1, is lobbying the government to purchase their motorboats, as these can double as ambulances in case a patient has to be ferried from a community six hours away to the airstrip where they can be flown to a hospital in Bogota. This lack of health facilities and personnel underscores how, as Rufina Rom\u00e1n says, \u201cthe pandemic is showing Amazonian territories\u2019 abandonment by the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Covid arrives in our communities it would be deadly. A group like the Mira\u00f1a, who only number 280 persons, could be decimated. It could lead them to disappear,\u201d says Jarvis Bernanza, before hammering his confidence in the redress program they helped design. \u201cWe\u2019d never had a process like this with the Colombian state. This route we built, with all its difficulties and satisfactions, is an example of how we can work with authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-encadre\" style=\"margin-top: 30px;\">\n<p><strong>DUQUE\u2019S CANDIDATE FOR THE ICC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without making any public announcements, in mid-May the Colombian government <a href=\"https:\/\/asp.icc-cpi.int\/EN_Menus\/asp\/elections\/judges\/2020\/pages\/default.aspx\">nominated<\/a> a close political ally of President Iv\u00e1n Duque for one of the six International Criminal Court (ICC) judges\u2019 seats to be chosen in December.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s Barreto, currently the head of Colombia\u2019s competition regulatory agency and one of eight candidates from Latin America and the Caribbean, is a 40-year-old lawyer with a background in international law but no experience in criminal law. A <a href=\"https:\/\/lasillavacia.com\/ivan-duque-el-buen-hijo-que-llego-la-casa-de-narino-65697\">childhood friend<\/a> of Duque, he served as his chief of staff in Congress and then as <a href=\"https:\/\/lasillavacia.com\/hagame-el-cruce\/el-equipo-del-empalme-de-duque-joven-y-tecnico-sin-dejar-de-ser-uribista-66759\">treasurer<\/a> and legal advisor of his 2018 election campaign. He previously worked in the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elnuevosiglo.com.co\/articulos\/07-2017-congresistas-de-colombia-y-chile-denuncian-a-maduro-ante-cpi\">helped draft<\/a> Duque\u2019s 2017 referral letter to the ICC requesting the prosecution of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Duque\u2019s bid is complex. Last month, members of his party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/politica\/tercer-intento-del-uribismo-por-reformar-la-jep\/\">announced<\/a> they will once again seek to modify the Special Jurisdiction for Peace stemming from the 2016 peace deal, arguing that military and policemen investigated for human rights violations should not face the same tribunal judging former FARC rebels. Their political gambit could backfire, as the extra-judicial executions committed by these officers are one of the central issues in the ICC Office of the Prosecutor\u2019s ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/colombia\">preliminary examination<\/a> on Colombia. Duque\u2019s own attempt last year to modify the transitional justice system resulted, as JusticeInfo <a href=\"en\/tribunals\/national-tribunals\/42052-colombia-transitional-justice-is-caught-up-in-politics.html\">told<\/a>, in a series of political setbacks that undermined his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Duque proposes a close ally for an international human rights body. In 2019 his candidate \u00c9verth Bustamante, a former Senate colleague and former member of the M-19 guerrilla that signed a peace accord three decades ago, lost the election for a seat on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A high-level expert panel had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcl.american.edu\/impact\/initiatives-programs\/center\/documents\/2019-informe-del-panel-independiente-de-expertos\/\">raised concerns<\/a> about his lack of knowledge in international human rights law and his political connections to the Government.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating the entire Amazon basin, just as one of Colombia\u2019s most ambitious redress programs for indigenous victims in this remote rainforest region is poised to kick off. 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