00:02Cele Aumensa has survived to three attacks in Colombia.
00:07The struggle of this woman in defense of the water against the mining
00:10has put in danger, as well as many other indigenous people who aboguen for nature.
00:16In that moment, when it fell, we caught up,
00:19it caught up on a wall and sent it to us.
00:24I thought that that was my end.
00:26After that, I began the rafagas.
00:29The only thing I did was to get up with my two sisters
00:33and put myself in a tank of water.
00:38I put myself there.
00:40Cele Aumensa pertenece a la Guardia Indígena,
00:42an organization no armada consolidated in 2001
00:45that defends the guards with stones and radios.
00:48Asegura that several times they saved lives.
00:51The threats come from the government,
00:53the guards,
00:55and also the paramilitares,
00:57according to Celia,
00:58who, at his 48 years,
00:59has lived in the middle of the internal conflict
01:01of almost six decades in the country.
01:04Allí the guerrilla
01:05me placed an objective military
01:07and the paramilitares
01:10told me that I was guerrilla
01:11because I was from the mountains.
01:13The attacks that he suffered
01:15have been forced to go away from the region
01:17several times.
01:18After presenting denunciations,
01:19the authorities offered
01:20an escort with vehicle
01:22to resguard it
01:23along with other three people
01:24in the area.
01:26Also,
01:27a phone and a cell phone
01:28and a cell phone
01:28that he didn't accept
01:29because he said
01:30that they'd feel a white
01:31in the movement.
01:33We are human beings,
01:35and one has a fear.
01:39But,
01:40we have also
01:44we have
01:46some fight,
01:48we have
01:50such women
01:51of women who have left their lives, of so many men who have left their lives,
01:56and that we have to say that the fight should not end because someone will die.
02:04The fight has to continue.
02:06The ONG Global Witness announced in their annual report
02:09that at least 227 activists defenders of the environment
02:12were killed in the whole world in 2020,
02:15almost a third of them in Colombia,
02:17the most lethal country for environmentalists.
02:28This year, I waited and prepared,
02:30I waited for a year,
02:34I waited for a year to do a party,
02:35I waited for a 15 year old,
02:38I waited for a 15 year old,
02:40and I stayed for 15 years to come.
02:47to see what we can take out of the food.
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