Deal #809

Import of error check - Coordinator's overview comment: Issue with size. Review all comments. Import of error check - Reviewer's overview comment: The issue is about the size and the actual state of the concession. It seems that the majority oil concession are in indigenous territories (which are generally the most biodiverse and preserved regions). As indigenous people often oppose themselves to exploitation and extractive industrial projects, they are often the victims of private and state violence because this project are considered as strategic and they generate a lot of money. As in the case 805 with U'Wa people, the Embera's right to be consulted and to refuse the exploitation of his territory was denied. As in the case of the U'Wa, judicial instances took decisions in favor of the entreprise against indigenous inhabitants. As in the case of the U'Wa and other similar, the oil company's implantation is protected by the national army. In the case of the Embera, this "protection" seems to have gone forward: on 30.01.2010, the Alto Guayabal community was bombarded by the army. The same had occured in 2000, and provoked the displacement of the community, who returned in 2008. The displacement of local populations permits to expand extractive activities easily. In Juanary 2009, the columbian Constitutional Court declared Embera people as threatened by displacement and desintegration because of armed conflict, the same as other 34 indigenous peoples.