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Families from indigenous communities in Oaxaca cry out for humanitarian support Juxtlahuaca. – More than 15 displaced families from the communities of Ndoyonoyuji and Guerrero Grande in the municipality of Atatlahuca, refugees in the shelter of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), they cry out humanitarian support following death by malnutrition of a minor, they denounced this Monday.
Families reported a lack of food since January of this year. It was in December of last year when the institutions came to leave them food in kind, since then neither the state government nor the federal government have looked out, to see the needs of children, women and the elderly, they accused .
“The last support we received was last year, in December it was the last time they came to give us a little support in kind. But to date, no one has come forward,” he told THE UNIVERSALValeriano Riaño, representative of the displaced refugees in the INPI.
This situation, they denounced, was made known following a 3-year-old girl lost her life due to not receiving timely care, who was diagnosed with a high degree of malnutrition by the IMSS-Wellness Rural Hospital in Tlaxiaco.
“The girl was from Guerrero Grande, because in the shelter there are three families from that community who preferred not to return with the other displaced people, because anyway they would live in an improvised shelter there in Guerrero Grande, now that the girl died, they had to go to bury his body there,” explained Valeriano Riaño.
The families of Ndoyonoyuji and Guerrero Grande from the municipality of San Esteban Atatlahuaca have been staying at the INPI shelter in Tlaxiaco since October 22, following a group of armed people burned their homes and forced them to leave their communities.
In the violent events of October 21, 22 and 23, 2021, dozens of houses were burned and at that time at least 300 families were victims of internal forced displacement from the communities of Ndoyonoyuji, Guerrero Grande and Mier and Terán.
Weeks following the attacks, regarding 75 families returned to Mier y Terán and Guerrero Grande, but the rest remain in the INPI shelter, who remain in a state of vulnerability due to the lack of food and services.
“We do not ask to be in this situation. We only ask to return to our communities, but it is not possible either because our houses were burned,” said one of the refugees.
Without complying with precautionary measures for displaced families, says Cedaphi
In a statement, the Center for Human Rights and Advice to Indigenous Peoples AC (Cedhapi), announced the failure to comply with the precautionary measures for the families of Guerrero Grande and Ndoyonoyuji, issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to the State Mexican, in the month of December.
Faced with the humanitarian crisis in which they denounced that the displaced families live, who are sheltered in Tlaxiaco, the president of the Cedhapi, Maurilio Santiago Reyes, pointed out: “In the present case, the rights of boys and girls consecrated by Articles 2 and 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child”.
Due to the lack of compliance, the human rights organization ruled for compliance with the precautionary measure granted by the IACHR in file MC-1050-21 and urgent humanitarian support for the displaced families of Guerrero Grande and Ndoyonoyuji.
Among the measures established by the IACHR are: Protect the rights to life and integrity of the indigenous families of Guerrero Grande and Ndoyonuyuji through culturally appropriate measures, to protect their rights, especially those of children, women and people greater.
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