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Bogota vows to guarantee safe return of displaced indigenous after neglect backfires
by Adriaan Alsema December 19, 2018
Bogota‘s city government on Tuesday vowed it would guarantee the safe return of hundred of displaced people that have been stranded in the capital without food or shelter for weeks.
Following uproar in the media about the inhumane and life-threatening conditions in which the people were surviving in the capital, Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa vowed his office would facilitate their return to the western Choco province from where they were displaced.
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According to DW journalist Alexandra Correa, who initially denounced the situation, the situation at La Florida Park isn’t much better as the hundreds of people have access to only one water source and no mattresses.
“Why do you maintain this attitude towards the indigenous? They are no animals for god’s sake,” the journalist wrote on Twitter.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/bogota-vows-to-guarantee-safe-return-of-displaced-indigenous-after-neglect-backfires/
