Weekly Report - 24 February 2004

Military summoned by Colombian Indian court

Postscript 24 February 2004 Modified: 24 February 2004 258 views

It was an historic occasion. On 19 February about 6,000 people, most of them members of the Nasa (or Páez ) people, gathered at the Resguardo de Huellas, in the department of Cauca, to attend the first-ever appearance of a Colombian army officer before an indigenous court acting under their customary law.

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