Colombia’s oldest indigenous communities under threat of extinction by civil conflict
The United Nations says some of Colombia’s oldest indigenous communities are under the threat of extinction by the civil conflict. The United Nations refugee agency warned that irregular armed groups were encroaching upon the land of some of the oldest and smallest indigenous groups. 1,700 people were forced to flee from their traditional territory in the north-western region of Chocó after the murder of two of their leaders last week. Colombia’s indigenous groups are often caught up in the conflict between government forces and left-wing rebels.
