Two indigenous Nicaraguan Mayans murdered This week, Nicaragua denounced activist Amaru Ruiz, an advocate for environmental rights and indigenous and Afro-noble peoples in her country, by settlers or land occupiers in the Caribbean. Those killed belonging to ethnic minorities fighting against exploitation of natural resources and deforestation have been identified as Serato Juwith Charly and Sergio Julian. Ruiz, head of the environmentalist Fundación del Río, who was exiled and stripped of citizenship by the Nicaraguan authorities, told reporters: two indigenous people killed by armed settlers It is in the Mayangna Suani region, in the Northern Caribbean of Nicaragua.
Based on the report that locals gave him, Ramírez said that last Wednesday, 23-year-old Serato Juwith Charly was killed while working on a field near the Kauhmakwas community. Juwith Charly added that he was with other locals engaged in artisanal mining when they were surprised by members of an armed gang known as the ‘Chabelo’. “He managed to jump into two (native) rivers and survived“, afflicted.
The other murder occurred on July 2, again between the communities of Musawas and Betlehem in Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean, when Sergio Julián Juan, 42, a community judge and forest ranger, was attacked by settlers occupying his native land. According to information received, Sergio Julián died two days ago from a gunshot wound.
Ruiz accused the alleged person The “systematic ethnic extermination” of the Daniel Ortega Government against ethnic minorities fighting against exploitation of natural resources and deforestation. “Miskito and Mayangna areas have been systematically attacked for almost a decade without the authorities fulfilling their duty to protect them and investigating these attacks by settlers and armed criminal gangs in Nicaragua’s North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region.” denounced the Indigenous Peoples Legal Aid Center (Calpi) for its part. Calpi said in a statement that 2023 was a “disastrous” year for locals, as they recorded nine murders, six kidnappings, five injuries, one attempted rape and one burned in the Sauni As region of Mayangna alone. their communities.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Oacnudh) condemned these crimes this Friday and demanded justice from the State of Nicaragua. “We call on the state to investigate and find those responsible for these attacks, to take measures to prevent these incidents from happening again, and to ensure the rights of the victims and their families,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Twitter account.
Nicaraguan authorities did not address the killing of two indigenous Mayagnas this week.