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| The military undress to natives of the Caura in search of gold |
| Wednesday, 13 of Julio of 2011 |
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Natives of the ethnic groups Yekuana, Sanema and Pemón, who live in the Sucre municipality, denounce to be white of upsettings and humiliations on the part of the Army. They indicate that they force them to civil servants to undress to review them in search of gold.
The natives are leaving the communities with fear, and arrive at Maripa escaping of the military upsettings The situation comes happening with more frequency for 12 days when a group of the component mentioned one raised towards Sigiriña, a site where Creole they operate the illegal mining in the Caura Stop, forest reserve and area under regime of special administration by its ecological importance. Ramon Mejías, related that when came from the Playón, the last community of the low Caura, with its family was intercepted by the military. “When we come from return reviewed the boats to us, to they undress them to the children remove, them, to ladies they undress them to the one, they do not respect do what he gives the desire them, they disarm the motors to us in search of gold, but I do not have gold, also undressed to me”. He explained that this has become a routine. “He always passes the same. We cannot travel clear the gasoline to us because we do not have guides for the fuel, but we obtained how them. I have house in Maripa here, have children who study and treatment to maintain family, but since there is no type of use, the mayoress does not give to use anybody (…) one tries to stay towards that zone doing trips, fishing, and when they leave trips with we do them to the miners”. He adds that in many occasions that rather money that we secure “clears it and we arrived at the house without how giving to eat the family, and for that reason we are denouncing, because the commander of here - Jose David Young Garci'a says that it is an order of the president (Chávez), but we did not support this”. Recurrence vejatoria Another family of the Pemón ethnic group who was not wanted to identify narrated as in the Playón were undressed. “They asked to Us that we took off the clothes I I refused, there was a military woman and I said to him that I had just like she, that reviewed to me until underneath the teats, reviewed baby of a year undressed, it, touched I to it I was annoying. son undressed also it they put, it with the hands in the head they put and it to bid up to jump. I complained much, I bothered myself and she denied to me. They had the names in the uniforms covered with tirro”. Annoying town Although in Maripa, the capital of Sucre usually are no manifestations, the few that take place usually are forceful and a sample of the indignation of the small town. |
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