The Attorney General’s Office reported that at the request of six governors of the Yukpa indigenous people, they have assumed the investigation into the death of five brothers aged 15, 13, 11, 7 and 3, which occurred on March 24 in the settlement. Kchusweye, in the El Limón village, in Codazzi, Cesar.
In this sense, a traveling team from the Collective Homicide Group of the Delegate for Territorial Security carried out urgent actions and is advancing the rigorous investigative activities to establish the causes of the tragic event. In addition, there will be advice from delegates for indigenous affairs of the entity and the support of community authorities.
“Preliminarily, it has been known that the children’s father returned to his place of residence, after attending a religious service, and found three of the minors dead and two others unconscious. The children in a state of drowsiness were transferred to a Codazzi healthcare center, then they died in a clinic,” the investigative entity indicated.
Likewise, the procedures for removing the bodies in the house were carried out by representatives of the Yukpa ethnic group, in accordance with their protocols, uses, customs and traditions.
Given the seriousness of what happened, the children’s parents requested the cooperation and support of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, and authorized the practice of autopsies and other complementary medical studies.
Likewise, the entity added that in a statement, the indigenous governors asked the Attorney General’s Office, the Ombudsman’s Office, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other national entities to assume the matters that correspond to their jurisdiction to clarify the death of the five minors and provide the necessary assistance in this case.
In this regard, the Attorney General of the Nation, Luz Adriana Camargo, will meet with delegates from the Yukpa people and other ethnic communities to learn their requirements regarding crimes and violent events that especially affect indigenous children, adolescents and women.