CONAIE Asks Ecuador Court to Maintain Indigenous Justice

According to ELUnivierso.com the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) Humberto Cholango asked today that the Constitutional Court of Ecuador maintain the rights and freedoms of indigenous justice. This allows the indigenous communities to judge and sentence their accused. Ecuador was declared a multinational state and an intercultural society. The justice issue has become a topic due to the case of La Cocha where five indigenous peoples are being tried by a modern world court for murder. However, this is after an indigenous court tried and prosecuted the same five people. Cholango says that the case may be a review of the indigenous court’s decision. He says that there should be a coordination of indigenous justice and that of the modern world. Cholango goes on to say that this can bring Ecuador a step toward unity of the two cultures.Read Article