{"id":2460,"date":"2021-11-29T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T09:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:06:19","slug":"la-lutte-continue-sur-la-cote-caribeenne-du-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkfeyerabend.org\/en\/2021\/11\/29\/la-lutte-continue-sur-la-cote-caribeenne-du-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"The struggle continues in the Caribbian Coast of Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the bad news of this year, we have to lament a massacre that affected the indigenous Miskitu and Mayangna communities living in the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in August 2021.\u00a0 At least 11 persons lost their lives there as part of an escalating pattern of violence and dispossession inflicted on the indigenous communities by settlers (\u2018colonos\u2019)\u00a0 coming to illegally log, mine for gold, and raise cattle in the area. The Nicaraguan government has not only failed to enforce legal protections of Indigenous land, but actually plays an active role in colonization and exploitation. \u00a0Since 2015, settlers have now killed more than 60 Indigenous people in Nicaragua, while many others have been displaced, according to the Center for Justice and Human Rights on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN).<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the recognition of these lands as autonomous territories by the country\u2019s legislation, the Ortega government has heavily promoted gold mining, commercial forestry, and cattle ranching since taking power in 2007 \u2014 both by its actions and omissions,\u201d said Oakland Institute Executive Director Anuradha Mittal. \u201cThe result has been an influx of settlers [known locally as colonos<\/em>] into these lands who continue to seize lands and kill Indigenous communities with impunity,\u201d Mittal added.<\/p>\n

International silence around the failure of the Nicaraguan government in enforcing national laws, its collusion with business interests, and its active role in the colonization of protected lands, was previously shattered by the Oakland Institute report, Nicaragua\u2019s Failed Revolution<\/em><\/a>. The report also brought forward first-hand testimony on the government\u2019s failure to follow up on reports of violence and killings of the Indigenous Miskitu community members since 2015. The same cycle has continued with this latest massacre; neither the police nor the army had investigated the case in the days immediately following the killings, nor acknowledged that the incident has occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe settlers continue killing our people with total impunity,\u201d said the Paul K. Feyerabend Laureate Lottie Cunningham, founder and director of the CEJUDHCAN. \u201cThe state has ignored our requests to investigate and prosecute past murders at the hands of settlers, and now the authorities are refusing to even acknowledge that this massacre took place. This impunity guarantees that more massacres like this will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

International scrutiny on the Nicaraguan government\u2019s disregard of Indigenous peoples\u2019 wellbeing has increased over the past year. At the 46th<\/sup> session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged the Nicaraguan government, led by President Daniel Ortega to \u201ctake effective measures, in consultation with indigenous peoples, to prevent and address the increasing violence committed against them, including by conducting prompt and independent investigations into alleged killings and land seizures by armed groups.\u201d This was followed by a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights on the impacts of the colonization of Indigenous lands on the Caribbean coast in March 2021.\u00a0It is reasonable to doubt that Ortega \u2013 just winner of a farce of free elections\u2014will listen to the call.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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