Colombia: Indigenous people seek the jungle to “release” the four missing children

22 days have passed and the whereabouts of the four Uitoto children missing after a plane crash in the jungles of southern Colombia remains uncertain. But Miguel Romario believes that the Mother Nature I was waiting for the group of indigenous people who are joining the search today to arrive to release them.

“(The Mother Nature) is waiting for us because we have a connection with it; we from tradition always ask permission “ensures Romarioa Murui indigenous guard from the reservation of Liririin it putumayo.

Since this Sunday, some 85 indigenous people from various jungle areas of Colombia have joined the military forces in the search for Lesly Mukutuy11 years old; Soleiny Mukutuy9 years old; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy4 year old and 11 month old baby Cristin Neruman Ranoque.

Romario leaves today with a group of 25 people from Putumayo and Caqueta of the Murui, Siona and Coreguaje ethnic groups to the heart of the jungle to look for the little ones who have been lost since May 1 and he is sure that in just 3 days they will find them.

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WITHOUT PART OF HIS SPIRIT

According to this indigenous man, who tells a story that has been repeated by other ethnic groups, including the children’s grandmother, who is uitotothe jungle has trapped them. When the plane where they were traveling crashed they suffered traumas and a part of their spirit has been separated from them.

“That makes them wander, they don’t stay still, because they are unconscious”says.

That is exactly what they are trying to do. Military forces by all means, be it through messages broadcast from the air with the voice of their grandmother to fliers thrown asking them not to move anymore so that it is easier to find them.

In this sense, the elders of towns like the mucui work has already begun to call the spirit and find them, “so that it is returned and they regain consciousness.”

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LOOK FOR A FLEA ON A RUG

Romario enters the jungle today on a mission that will not stop until they are found and for which they wear hoods to withstand up to 16 hours of rain in the forest, hammocks, fariña (a cassava flour), canned food, sweets and liquids , and also ambil (a tobacco liquid that gives them “concentration and strength”), mambe (coca leaf powder) and tobacco.

Before they have to ask the jungle for permission with a ceremony to let them enter and they know they will have to be careful, but they say they are not afraid because “They are with God.”

They also attended a meeting with the military who are directing the so-called Operation Hope from San José del Guaviare, the town where the aircraft was heading and where the mother of the children was also traveling, Magdalena Mukutui; the indigenous leader Herman Mendoza and the pilot of the aircraft, Hernando Murcia, whose bodies have already been recovered.

“That jungle is very complex, sometimes I feel that we were looking for a flea in a rug who is jumping all the time”tells them General Pedro Sánchez, commander of the special forces.

At the moment, they explain on a map on a projector, they have found only seven tracks of the minors and they have delimited an area where more than 150 soldiers and seven people from the indigenous reservation of Araracuarawhere the family lived, continue to search endlessly.

It is an area of ​​virgin forest, in the middle of the unexplored Chiribiquete Parkbetween the departments of Guaviare and Caqueta and crossed by the river Apaporis.

The first physical evidence that gave them the “illusion that there was life” it was a bottle that supposedly belongs to the baby they found on Monday. That same day they also found a passion fruit in the area that they think could have been eaten and finally, at the end of the night, they found the plane.

It was plummeting, its tip touching the leafy ground. The children, the military believe, were saved precisely because they were riding in the tail of the little Cessna 206 airplaneexplains the older jesus riveracommander of field operations.

The military forces and Civil Aeronautics They demarcated the area and the following days they found a refuge at 3,600 meters from the aircraft where they could have sheltered and a pair of footprints. But since Friday they have found nothing else.

Neither the military nor the indigenous people, who now work hand in hand, lose faith and precisely the general asks the group that today leaves in search: “Let’s make this Operation Hope a miracle.”

Source: Elcomercio

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