Bogota, Feb 23 (EFE) .- Colombian Indians will pay tribute to tomorrow English judge Baltasar Garzon for their support and solidarity during the 40th anniversary of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC), apartment located in southwestern Colombia.
The director of the Center for Intercultural Studies of the Universidad Javeriana, Manuel Ramiro Munoz, who accompanied the entourage to Garzon, told Efe that the CRIC will yield Garzón "in recognition of their solidarity and support" especially for his role as guarantor in the act of reconciliation between this community and the Colombian government before the Inter- Human Rights (IACHR).
Garzón was secured in the process of reconciliation after the slaughter of 20 indigenous people on the estate of the Nile, carried out in December 1991 and ultimately led the state to accept its responsibility for the events.
The court shall hear the homage in the La María indigenous reservation in the municipality Piendamó Cauca, where they gather this week some 20,000 natives with the intention to review its progress in the fight for their rights during the past 40 years.
Ramiro, who also participated in the conciliation of the slaughter of the Nile as a delegate to the Commission, he added that the greatest achievement of the CRIC "has been the consolidation of their struggle from the 1991 Constitution, which recognizing the legal autonomy, political and cultural development of indigenous Colombians. "
The CRIC was born on February 24, 1971 "with the aim of reaffirming articulating strategic points of the indigenous" pray according to the rules of this organization.
Separately, Baltasar Garzon's visit to Colombia comes at a key moment, because the judge could become an advisor to the Colombian State on human rights. Garzón
be hired by the English Government under a request of the Organization of American States (OAS) and within the framework of international cooperation.
itself English Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, said this week in Madrid that Garzon would be a candidate "more suitable" for that task, to ensure that government English is "expected to answer affirmatively to the request of the OAS."
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