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THE ATRATO’S

DIASPORA

THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN’S

TRUE HISTORY

THE ATRATO’S

DIASPORA

THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN’S

TRUE HISTORY



COLOMBIA COLOMBIA



COLOMBIA COLOMBIA

The Republic of Colombia is a country located innorthwestern South America. Colombia isbordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; tothe south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north bythe Atlantic Ocean, through the Caribbean Sea;

to the north-west by Panama; and to the westby the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also sharesmaritime borders with the Caribbean countries of Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic andthe Central American countries of Honduras,

Nicaragua and Costa Rica.



COLOMBIA COLOMBIA



CHOCOBIODIVERSITY

HOTSPOT

CHOCOBIODIVERSITY

HOTSPOT

Reaching from the mostsoutheastern portion of Mesoamerica to thenorthwestern corner of SouthAmerica, the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Hotspot extends for1,500 kilometers andencompasses 274,597 km²along the western coastal flankof the Andes Mountains.

The hotspot includes a widevariety of habitats, ranging frommangroves, beaches, rockyshorelines, and coastalwilderness to some of theworld's wettest rain forests inthe Colombian Chocó. Inaddition, South America's onlyremaining coastal dry forestsoccur in this hotspot. Scatteredthroughout the relatively flatcoastal plain are a number of small mountain systems thathave fostered the evolution of "islands" of endemism withinthe region.



THECHOCO

DEPARTMENT

THECHOCO

DEPARTMENT

Chocó is a department of

Colombia known for its largeAfro-Colombian population. Itis in the west of the country,and is the only Colombiandepartment to have coastlineson both the Pacific Ocean andthe Caribbean sea.

Despite having an incrediblydiverse geography, uniqueecosystems and unexploitedresources, Chocó is one of the

Departments in Colombia withthe worst human conditions forliving.



THE

CHOCO DEPARTMENT

THE

CHOCO DEPARTMENT

78% of the Choco's people are...

US!

THE AFRO



THE ATRATO RIVERTHE ATRATO RIVER

IT MEANS FOR US ...

1. Our only route from and towards our territories.

2. Our only access of food and medicines.

3. Our only route to trade our products.

4. It is a food and water source.

5. It is a source of minerals and water wealth.

6. Our towns are located in its rivieras.

7. It is our way of living !!



The Río Atrato is a river of northwesternColombia. It rises in the slopes of theWestern Cordillera and flows almost duenorth to the Gulf of Urabá, where it forms alarge, swampy delta. Its course crosses the

department of Chocó, forming thatdepartment's border with neighboringAntioquia on two occasions. Its total length isabout 650 km (400 miles), and it is navigableas far as Quibdó (400 km / 250 mi).

Flowing through a narrow valley between theCordillera and coastal range, it has only shorttributaries, the principal ones being the RíoTruando, the Río Sucio, and the Río Murri.The gold and platinum mines of Chocó linesome of its confluents, and the river sands

are auriferous.



THE ATRATO RIVERTHE ATRATO RIVER



OWNERS OF THE LANDOWNERS OF THE LAND

It was not until 1993, withthe Law 70, that theColombian Governmentrecognizes our ancestralrights over the lands ourcommunities were living on

for more than 400 years. Withthe Law, the governmentgave us (the Afro-Colombiancommunities) the collectiveownership and rights overmore than 8 million of hectares.

Most of the ChocoDepartment is included onthose collective territories.

So we,the Afro-Colombiancommunities of the

Atrato River, not onlybecause our ancestral

rights, but by law,are …

THE TRUE

OWNERS OFTHESE

TERRITORIES!

THE TRUE

OWNERS OFTHESE

TERRITORIES!



One of the biggest

biodiversity wealth

in the whole world.

Plenty natural and

mineral resources.

One of the biggest

water wealth in

Colombia.

One of the most

fertile and rich soils

in Colombia.

And yet, with one of the worst human living

conditions in Colombia.

And yet, with one of the worst human living

conditions in Colombia.

We are the right owners

of a territory with …

We are the right owners

of a territory with …



CHOCO – URABA.

A GEO-STRATEGIC CORNER

CHOCO – URABA.


The Panama Border:Situated in the middle of one on themost inhospitable and dense jungle of the world. It is used by the illegalarmed groups as shelter to avoid theColombian Army. In addition, theborder is used by them as a “secure” zone to smuggle illegal drugs to theworld and to smuggle weapons,chemicals and cash money intoColombia.

Low Government Presence:Historically, there has been a very lowpresence of the Colombian Government inthe region. The illegal armed groups havetaken advantage of it and have conqueredthe region to their control.

Two Oceans:

The Choco is the only political division of Colombia with shores over the Atlantic and

Pacific Oceans. Since there is a limitedpresence of the government and its controland/or defense bodies, these accesses tothe oceans are easily used to smuggleillegal drugs to the world and to smuggleweapons, chemicals and cash money intoColombia.

A Dense and Inhospitable

Jungle:

The Chocó’s Jungle is one of themost dense and inhospitable jungleof the world. This condition hasallowed the illegal armed groups inColombia to develop plantations,settle drug processing laboratories,and to hide kidnapped people,weapons and money.



CHOCO – URABA.


CHOCO – URABA.


With all that conditions, theillegal armed groups havebeen using the Choco as:

A place to establish cocaine plantations

A place to establish cocaineprocessing laboratories

A door to smuggle cocaine to the world

A door to smuggle chemicals into Colombia

A door to smuggle weapons into Colombia

A door to smuggle illegal money into Colombia

A place to hide kidnapped people



CHOCO – URABA.


CHOCO – URABA.


AND, FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS, THEPREDOMINANT ILLEGAL ARMED

GROUP IN THE REGION HAS BEEN

THE TERRORIST GROUP, CALLED

THEMSELVES AS

“REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES

OF COLOMBIA” OR:

AND, FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS, THEPREDOMINANT ILLEGAL ARMED

GROUP IN THE REGION HAS BEEN

THE TERRORIST GROUP, CALLED

THEMSELVES AS

“REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES

OF COLOMBIA” OR:



COMBINATION OF ALL FORMS OF STRUGGLE

For more than 40 years armed subversion inColombia has been one of the largestgenerators of violence, concentrating itsactivities in regions such as Uraba, regardedby analysts as a global geostrategic corner.

One of the main characteristics of the FARCcommunist guerrilla is its ability to maneuverin any social or political scene. This facilitatedthe use and combination of all forms of

struggle, to implement -joint or separately-military action and political/organizativeclandestine work; or implementing an open,legal and socially wide political action, oftenthrough subversive actors under the figure of social organizations such as humanitarianNGOs and church diocese, among others.





MUTATA

TURBO

PAVARANDO

WHICH WERE THE REAL CAUSES OF

DISPLACEMENT?

WHICH WERE THE REAL CAUSES OF

DISPLACEMENT?The immediate cause of displacement was theimminent need of the 57 Front of the FARC andthe Jose Maria Cordoba guerrilla’s Block, tostop the so called ”Genesis Operation”, displayed by the Army to recover an arearegarded as a sanctuary of the FARC- as amilitarily safe territory with a politically

captive population.

The movement order was given directly by theFARC Secretariat, only body who could issueorders to displace civilians, and transmittedto Block Jose Maria Cordoba by the delegateIVAN MARQUEZ who at once devised the“Comprehensive Mobilization Plan”.



MUTATA

TURBO

PAVARANDO

WHAT WERE THE OBJECTIVES OF

DISPLACEMENT?

WHAT WERE THE OBJECTIVES OF

DISPLACEMENT?

The FARC’s main objectives were:

To block the road to the sea, preventing access fromthe security forces;

To achieve demilitarization of the territory as aprecondition for returning;

To achieve a Collective Title of the territory, and;

To give international visibility to theso called "humanitarian crisis" byselling the argument that forceddisplacement was a product of a

strategy designed and funded byparamilitary groups, with obscureeconomic interests, led by theColombian State and executed by the17th Military Brigade, with jurisdictionwithin the area.



WHAT WHERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF

DISPLACEMENT?

WHAT WHERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF

DISPLACEMENT?

•Dispossession.

•Geographic uprooting.

•Rupture of the social tissue.

•Dispersion.

•Social and political invisibility.

•Approval of diverse groups byadopting a collective personality(displaced persons, Africandescent’s people).

•Seizure of the collectivepersonality, by imposingorganizational forms beyond itstradition (as the communitycouncils).



THE HUMANITARIAN CRISISTHE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

The FARC gained control of the territoryvacated by the displacement, checkingthe population physically to encouragetheir mobilization, and implementing itsdemands apparently on behalf of thecommunity.

But the Army did not allow the human

tide continued progress, so theconcentration of displaced people in thecounty of Pavarandó became the largesttemporary human settlement in thehistory of the country.

The response of the Colombian State waswelfare, ineffective, impromptu and

irresponsible. For its part, FARC alreadyanticipated the organization of thedisplaced through an internalCommittee, representing the collectiveand assuming the negotiation with theState.



THE HUMANITARIAN CRISISTHE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

Displaced population was standardized,despite of its differences and aspirations.

The "humanitarian crisis" - deliberately

created by the FARC trough the internal

exi le, the family and community dispersion,the invisibility of the individual and the

perfection of “the organization” as a

captive tool in the hands of the FARC -,holds up the collective personality,enhances the control over the territory,over its population and over the

negotiation process itself.



THE SELECTIVE RETURNTHE SELECTIVE RETURN

The FARC brought intentional divisionmaneuvers in order to perpetuate itscontrol over the group, split it intohostile camps according to their affinityor resistance to their ideas of organization and the prospect of return,under a "new order" imposed by them.

On December 13, 1999 an agreementwas reached between the parties -displaced people and the ColombianState-, and several assisted operationreturns began, some held by theColombian State, others by privateagencies and outsiders.

However, the return was selective andexclusionary by some NGOs. No accountwas taken of the majority of thecommunity and, following parametersoutlined by the FARC, the territorieswere stocked by persons related to itsstrategy.





A VOICE FOR THE

“DISPLACED WITHOUT VOICE”

A VOICE FOR THE


DEMANDS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF LOWER ATRATO RIVER

VERSUS TEN YEARS OF IMPERSONATION OF THEIR WILL

INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY

DEMANDS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF LOWER ATRATO RIVER

VERSUS TEN YEARS OF IMPERSONATION OF THEIR WILL

INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY



A VOICE FOR THE


A VOICE FOR THE

“DISPLACED WITHOUT VOICE” We, the black communities of the lower Atrato River, are tired of being supplanted by organizations that claim to be "humanitarian companions," which falsely speak out on our behalf and, in reality, have been profiting from our misery.

We want to finish definitively the forms of modern slavery, such as impersonationof our representation and our voice, abducted by humanitarian NGOs such as

PEACE BRIGADES INTERNATIONAL and the INTERECLESIASTICALCOMMISSION ON JUSTICE AND PEACE.



A VOICE FOR THE


A VOICE FOR THE

“DISPLACED WITHOUT VOICE” We want to remind the world

and Colombia, that our traditional forms of collectiveexistence are the community,

the village, the hamlet, theneighborhood and the plot.There we born and exist for

decades before exile.

We want to return back to

our beloved territory, under the State protection and monitored by the Inter-

American Court of HumanRights, without

“humanitarian companions”.





THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!

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