Freedom for Mother Earth! Freedom for Mother Earth! If there had
been justice and reparation for the victims of hundreds of
massacres committed in the last twenty years in the Colombian
countryside, as well as those committed between 1946 and 1958
and in previous waves of violence, the principal measure would
be to return their land to the campesinos, indigenous people and
afro-colombians who have time and again been thrown off Mother
Earth by blood and fire. As dawn came on 2 September 2005, two
hundred comuneros - community activists - from the Indigenous
Reserve of Nasa de Huellas dared to implement the decision of
the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Court established
that the Colombian state should hand back their land as part of
an integral reparation to victims of a massacre committed by
paramilitaries on 19 September 1991 in the Nilo hacienda - large
farmstead - that the indigenous people had occupied. Twenty of
them, children included, were assassinated. Tired of waiting
fourteen years for j