End Violence Against the Indigenous Q'eqchi' Community San Miguel Cotoxja
End Violence Against the Indigenous Q'eqchi' Community San Miguel Cotoxja
The Issue
The indigenous q'eqchi' peasants of the community San Miguel Cotoxja have an ancestral right to their land. Their parents and grandparents lived on the land, and their basic rights were repeatedly violated. Now the government is attempting to violently evict residents, leaving them in a struggle to survive so that wealthy land owners can use the land to become even more wealthy. But the children and adults of San Miguel Cotoxja deserve dignity and life. We will not sit by idly while the government commits this atrocity.
The Issue
The indigenous q'eqchi' peasants of the community San Miguel Cotoxja have an ancestral right to their land. Their parents and grandparents lived on the land, and their basic rights were repeatedly violated. Now the government is attempting to violently evict residents, leaving them in a struggle to survive so that wealthy land owners can use the land to become even more wealthy. But the children and adults of San Miguel Cotoxja deserve dignity and life. We will not sit by idly while the government commits this atrocity.
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Petition created on November 21, 2014