The hidden villages in Ecuador are about to be exterminated. Global citizens can do something about it. To: Galo Chiriboga, Attorney General of the Nation Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador In May 2003, was found next to an Indian house in the Yasuni National Park, 12 bodies of murdered women and children belonging to a hidden group. No doubt the dead were many more. No competent state body took any steps to prevent future killings. Accordingly, in 2006, the IACHR ordered precautionary measures in favor of tagaeri-Taromenani. A year later, the Ecuadorian government created a plan precautionary measures whose sole purpose is to protect the lives of uncontacted peoples in the Yasuni National Park and its surroundings. Since then, the plan has lost budget, scope and competencies, and today extremely limited in its actions. In March 2013, a new killing has occurred in the Yasuni National Park, there is undeniable evidence and testimonies of the participants pointing to more than 30 deaths Taromenani Clan. Given the obvious genocide and ethnocide, the undersigned citizens ask the government Ecuadorian and state agencies such as Office, Assembly and Justice, the following: 1 - To strengthen and reform the Precautionary Measures Plan that has lost budget and skills since 2007. Bestowing the powers needed to carry out effective actions for the protection of uncontacted peoples in the Yasuni National Park and surrounding areas. 2 - That the Precautionary Measures Plan with international monitoring count as the Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UN as well as anthropologists and technicians to monitor the implementation of the plan. 3 - That the Precautionary Measures Plan and socialize deliver action protocols, where sightings of uncontacted tribes, oil companies, local authorities and residents nearby, be they farmers, Waorani, Kichwa, Shuar, who would be at risk with these presences. 4 - Stop absolutely illegal logging in the Yasuni National Park and stop the expansion of the agricultural frontier and oil, respecting the territory tagaeri- temporary moratoria Taromenani by activities that put pressure on its territory. 5 - Require the Attorney competent investigation to ascertain the facts of the deaths in recent years (2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013), but starting and being effective with what happened in March of 2013. 6 - Enforce the final linderation Waorani territory and define, according to their mobility patterns, land-Taromenani tagaeri. 7 - Enforce Article 57 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Art 57. - "The territories of peoples in voluntary isolation are irreducible and intangible ancestral possession, and they shall be closed to all extractive activities. The State shall take measures to ensure their lives, to respect their determination and will to remain in isolation, and safeguard the enforcement of their rights. The violation of these rights constitute the crime of ethnocide, which is punishable by law. The State shall ensure the implementation of these collective rights without discrimination, in conditions of equality and equity between women and men " in August - Promoting dialogue paths to the Waorani, with him, define, in the framework of the rights of indigenous peoples, sanctions on any violent incursion into the territory tagaeri-Taromenani and also decide the future of the two girls Taromenani kidnapped in March of 2013.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:30:01 +0000
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