Colombia’s Justice Ministry said Thursday that one of the country’s most prominent indigenous leaders will serve his sentence for illegally retaining a military official in a detention center inside an indigenous reserve.
Indigenous guards in the southwest of Colombia have detained 27 soldiers following the murder of a former governor of a local reserve.
Five police officers were injured in a clash over land rights with indigenous communities in the Cauca province in southwest Colombia.
Indigenous guards from a reserve in southwest Colombia temporarily detained 32 members of the army after accusations the military unit murdered a local.
Half of Colombia’s Indigenous population is at risk of disappearance, according to lawmakers representing Colombia’s indigenous communities.
A shaman from central Colombia was arrested on Thursday on charges he drugged and raped at least 50 women between 2008 and 2012.
Indigenous groups from the southwest of Colombia have been clashing with police over the past few weeks after months-long protests over land failed to produce agreements with the national government.
Colombia has temporarily suspended 516 mining operations, citing the possible adverse effects on ethnic communities as the cause.
Displaced indigenous and farming communities traveled to South Korea this week where they will train to promote economic development through solidarity work, said the United Nations on Thursday.