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The Wao Warn Loggers

Los waos advierten a los madereros

 
El Comercio

The Wao Warn Loggers
4/19/2006
Puyo and Society Sections

The loggers that intend to enter in Waorani territory are warned. They will be speared or detained by the communities of the Nationality.

Vicente Enomenga, president of the Governing Council of the Organization of the Waorani Nationality (ONWAE), recorded the prohibition. No logger can enter in the 700,000 Ha of Wao territory.

However, the head of ONWAE clarified that it was not the Waorani who attacked the loggers last Thursday. It was the Taromenane, an uncontacted community, that separated from the Wao and live in virgin jungle.

Enomenga is convinced that it was the Taromenane. This group uses spears that exceed three meters in length. According to the version of the Wao, their brothers the Taromenane are “intrepid fighters, good runners and have strong arms.” These characteristics permit them to use their spears from long distances to defend their territory.

The Wao leader also mentioned that the two victims were part of more than twenty logging camps that entered in groups of six workers. Their entrance included territories of the uncontacted communities like the Taromenane.

A Wao group from the Ñoneno community, lead by Manuel Cahuiya, tried to arrive at the site of the attack. According to their versions of the story, the group would be large, but they affirmed that they did not arrive at their houses. The Cahuiya group was armed with shotguns, but they indicate that they did not encounter the Taromenane, the presumed authors of the attack on the loggers.

William Angulo, one victim of the incident, died on Saturday the fifteenth during a surgical procedure being performed in Eugenio Espejo Hospital to extract from him two spear fragments. One was twenty centimeters long and was imbedded in his thigh, and the other was eight centimeters long and was in his thorax.

The other logger remains stable and will be discharged sometime this week, according to the Director of the hospital in Quito.

The Waorani hope for definitive delineation of the Intangible Zone, and that the Ministry of the Environment prohibits illegal logging in Yasuní National Park and the Waorani territory.

The Commission for the Protection of the Isolated Communities of Yasuní asked the authorities for the immediate adoption of measures that would prevent the secret entrance of loggers and other foreigners in the territories of the isolated communities.

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El Comercio

Los waos advierten a los madereros
4/19/2006
Redacciones Puyo y Sociedad

Los madereros que intenten ingresar al territorio waorani están advertidos. Serán lanceados o detenidos por las comunidades de esta nacionalidad.

Vicente Enomenga, presidente del Consejo de Gobiernos de la Organización de la Nacionalidad Waorani (Onwae) recordó la prohibición. Ningún maderero puede ingresar a las 700 000 hectáreas del territorio wao.

Sin embargo, el titular de la Onwae aclaró que no fueron los waorani quienes atacaron a los madereros el pasado jueves. Fueron los Taromenane, un pueblo no contactado, que se separó de los waos y que vive en la selva virgen.
 
Enomenga tiene la convicción de que fueron los Taromenane. Este grupo usa lanzas que superan los tres metros de largo.  Según versiones de los wao, sus hermanos Taromenane son “guerreros intrépidos, buenos corredores y de brazos fuertes”. Estas características les permiten usar sus lanzas desde  largas distancias para así defender su  territorio .

El dirigente wao menciona además que los dos agredidos son parte de más de 20 madereros que entraron en grupos de seis trabajadores. El ingreso incluyó territorios de los pueblos no contactados como los Taromenane.

Un grupo  wao, de la comunidad de  Ñoneno, dirigido por Manuel Cahuiya, intentó llegar hasta sitio del ataque. Según sus versiones, el grupo sería numeroso, pero afirman que no llegaron hasta sus casas. El grupo de Cahuiya fue armado de escopetas, pero indican  que no encontraron a los Taromenane, los presuntos autores del ataque a los madereros.

En este incidente falleció, el sábado 15, Wiliam Angulo, luego de una intervención quirúrgica que le practicaron en el Hospital Eugenio Espejo, para extraerle dos fragmentos de lanzas. Uno, de 20 centímetros estaba inscrustado en el muslo y el otro de ocho centímetros en el tórax.

El otro maderero permanece estable y será dado de alta en esta semana, según el Director de esa casa de salud de Quito.
 
Los waorani  esperan la delimitación definitiva de la Zona Intangible y que el Ministerio del Ambiente prohiba la explotación de la madera en el Parque Nacional Yasuní y el territorio waorani.
 
La Veeduría para la Protección de los Pueblos Aislados de Yasuní solicitó a las autoridades  la adopción inmediata de medidas que eviten el ingreso de madereros furtivos y otros extraños al territorio de los pueblos aislados.

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