CPTnet
6 April 2011
COLOMBIA: Las Pavas community returns

Monday morning, 4 April, the community of Las Pavas exercised their right to return to their land.  Though anxious because of threats directed at community leaders and the news that the police were gathered ahead, approximately twenty families of the originally displaced 123 walked for two hours with their belongings in hand to the land from which National Police and a police riot squad forced them out nearly two years ago, in July 2009.  International and national groups are accompanying the community, including CPT.

 The police offered no resistance.  The community has begun building houses and planting crops.

 Actions in solidarity with Las Pavas took place in Bogota (Colombia), New Orleans (USA), Toronto (Canada), Berlin (Germany), and London (UK) among other places.

 CPT Colombia gives thanks that the community returned without encountering violence, but team members continue to ask for your prayers and support during this transition.