Members of the Choctún Basilá community have denounced the following practices perpetrated against them by members of the Chilté cooperative: damage to crops, illegal logging, shooting and destruction of other natural assets. Although Choctún Basilá holds the ownership documents, the cooperative has grabbed large extensions of this land in order to sell it to large landowners for monoculture plantations. The events occurred within the context of a long-standing conflict between the Choctún Basilá community and the Chilté cooperative over a piece of farm land called 1,684. ![]() In 2019 they were sentenced to 35 non-commutable years, for the crimes of homicide and attempted homicide relating to the death of Leonardo Coc Ical and injury to Edgar Gabriel Polom on July 13, 2017, both members of the Chilté cooperative, neighboring Choctún Basilá. ![]() Jorge Coc Coc and Marcelino Xol Cucul, indigenous authorities from the Choctun Basilá community, in the municipality of Cobán, department of Alta Verapaz, are members of the Community Council of the Highlands (CCDA) and have been imprisoned in the Preventive Detention Center for Men and Women of Cobán since 2018.
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