At least 2,000 indigenous people from west-central Colombia are camping outside a government office in Bogota on Tuesday, demanding a meeting with high-level authorities to discuss their demands for ancestral lands and attention to their communities. teleSUR
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00:00And at least 2,000 indigenous people from West Central Colombia camped out in front of a government office in Bogota
00:06to make demands for their ancestral lands and draw attention to their communities.
00:11They arrived in 40 buses from the Risaralda department and set up hundreds of tents in front of the national land office.
00:18Furthermore, women with children sat there.
00:21As they denounced the death of at least 110 children younger than 5 years old,
00:26the deaths of these children have been from malnutrition-related diseases since 2023.
00:31As a result, demonstrators have claimed the government to draw more attention to their communities.