Al Jazeera Tells the Untold Side of the Story
released without anybody getting hurt. They were so successful that today more than 70 percent of Colombia’s ethnic groups have similar guards. Since then they have won the prestigious “National Peace Prize” sponsored by the United Nations. Today they remain a powerful mechanism for civil resistance. But what hasn’t changed, unfortunately, is the level of those threats. The 2016 peace accord brought the demobilisation of the FARC and a brief lull in the violence; a time of hope and renewed illusions. But the conflict has returned. The Colombian state failed to fill the vacuum left by the rebels and new criminal mafias, neo-paramilitary groups and rebel dissidents started a new confrontation for the same old drug routes and territorial control. Leaving the Indigenous Guard and the entire Nasa community once again alone to fight peacefully under constant threat for their land and dignity.
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