Public statement: Condemnation of threats against Nasa leaders in Valle del Cauca, Colombia

On the morning of 18 May, a threat signed by a self-appointed criminal organisation in alliance with FARC dissidents was found in Florida, Valle del Cauca. The threat was once more directed against leader Jorge Milton Conda Ipia, one of the indigenous delegates to the National Commission on Indigenous Territories, a space for consultation on territorial rights.

The Commission categorically rejects the threats to the leaders of the Nasa people of the Kwe'sx Yu Kiwe Territory, denounces the conflict that is worsening in the Central Cordillera and demands measures in the face of the great threat to the people of Florida and Pradera.

Read the full statement below.