Missionaries do a march in defense of the taromenane group

Around 50 missioners and human rights supporters of the peoples in voluntary isolation are carrying out a march since July 9, which calls for an investigation about the alleged killing of a group of taromenanes in the province of Orellana in March.

“The taromenanes exist and want to live,” is what is heard on the march, which has been performed for seven years, by the death of Monsignor Alejandro Lavaka and the sister Ines Arango, who were assassinated by the tagaeris on July 21, 1987.

Protestants arrived on tuesday to Sucumbios from Quito, and they expect to arrive on sunday to Coca, where there will be a tribute to the killed religious.

The taromenanes and the tagaeris are isolated peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, who avoid contact with the inhabitants of the populations settled in the area; there are times when there are armed clashes among them or hostility towards hunters, poachers, loggers and oil industry workers, with high presence in their territories.