Shocked by a recent spate of teen suicides, shamans in the Colombian Amazon placed their remote Indigenous village under a three-week 'quarantine' without alcohol, football or music. | via philstarlife
The quarantine began on September 5 with a special night-long ritual involving tobacco smoking and sipping on flower-infused water.
A week before the ceremony, a teenaged girl and a shaman in Arara took their lives one after the other—the latest victims in a suicide spree for which there is no official tally. Community leaders also highlight the influence of alcoholism and drug addiction in an area so close to the border with coca-growing Peru.In the Colombian Amazon, 58 percent of its inhabitants Indigenous, the suicide rate in 2021 was 9.87 per 100,000 inhabitants—almost double the national average, according to the national forensic authority. Among Indigenous communities, a higher-than-average rate has also been registered in Brazil, Peru and French Guyana.
It starts at a young age, she said, when children from remote communities move to boarding schools in larger towns where discrimination against them is rife.
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