October 15th, 2008
Indigenous groups all over Colombia have mobilized themselves both physically and through the widespread use of the media with a view to exercise their rights, both to life and to be the rightful owners of their own territory. They use the collective name ‘minga’ that helps to unite all the disparate indigenous groups under one common ideology and reinforces the idea that they are together pursuing the same goal. All those who belong to the national ‘minga’ movement and other sympathizers reject the attitude of the national government that has often persecuted and denied indigenous rights by impeding the mobility of the native people, by persecution, prosecution, disappearances and even assassinations.