Humanitarian Refugee Camp Documentary

19.04.10

By International Peace Observatory- IPO

Today, April 13th in Cartagenita, Convención, the People’s Hearings for Dialogue and Agreement (MIA). This marks a new chapter in the process, with the announced return of the regional authorities to the negotiations with the Catatumbo farmers. It’s a process that was born out of the formation of the Humanitarian Refugee Camp in Catatumbo. The camp was established in April last year as a response to the Colombian government’s fumigation campaign that was destroying the farmers’ crops and leaving them in a serious humanitarian crisis. Today, less than a month before the Humanitarian Refugee Camp celebrates its first year, the authorities have yet to offer the farmers real answers to their demands in this process of dialogue with the leadership of ASCAMCAT. The village community leaders and the farmers involved in the process are today suffering from state judicial persecution, facing search and arrest warrants, simply for demanding that their human rights be respected.
This video about the Humanitarian Refugee Camp in Catatumbo has been made by IPO with the intention of helping ASCAMCAT and the farmers of Catatumbo to communicate this process. But also to show our support and solidarity, and pay tribute to all the people who are making it possible for us to accompany and be a part of the Refugee Camp, the People’s Hearings, and the farmers’ resistance.
Long live Catatumbo!

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