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TAO COMMUNITY AT THE TEMPLO VEGETAL SAKROAKUARIUS IN COLOMBIA
17 YEARS OF PERSECUTION AGAINST A PEACEFUL COMMUNITY
JUNGLES OF ETASHTITLAN
(AMERICA)
We will set out in brief words to elaborate a summary, up to these days, of 17 years of persecution with attacks of all kinds and another number of actions perpetrated against the Taoists that up to this date have left already close to a hundred corpses of Taoists; this without counting the hundreds, that without being Taoists, have been victims because they were confused with Taoists or for the belief that amongst them there were Taoists.
Since in order to elaborate a total chronicle of this bloody persecution we would need perhaps several thousand pages, we will make a brief synthesis and will cite some events, of the most recent at least. In one of the Taoist monasteries, in 1993, a series of studies were elaborated by the Taoist community with regards to a geographical zone where there would be organized, after the respective legalization, a Taoist monastery.
Also in the aforementioned study, after having acquired cartographic maps issued by the Agustin Codazzi Geographic Institute, which is a state run Institute, it was verified, as it can still be verified, that the mentioned area does not correspond to any sort of forestry reserve and much less to any buffer zone, given that the buffer zones of Sanctuaries and National parks are not legislated in Colombia; it was established that there is a forestry reserve but it is located several kilometers from what is today the Templo Vegetal Sakroakuarius.
In 1994 the arrangements were already concluded for the acquisition of the properties that in quality of a purchase were acquired, with others taken on lease, arrangements accorded with the owners, whom by heredity had acquired the properties from their ancestors.
Upon the arrival of the Taoist monks to this place, after some days of exploring the region, they discovered, not on the acquired property, but in the zone corresponding to the Forestry reserve, a gigantic poppy plantation, whose surface surpassed 30 hectares, with hundreds of thousands of poppy plants. Upon finding this they immediately communicated it to the Temple Abbots and to the rest of the administration of the Temple, since our doctrine is for the absolute regeneration of the human being, in all its aspects, not in a theoretical way only but in practice as well, delivering to each being a message of hope, of health and of life, totally contrary to what is produced by narcotics, which is thousands of crazed people every year, besides the rivers of blood that due to them are produced. The Temple administration ordered the destruction, in its totality, of those crops, activity that lasted approximately 8 days in which the Taoist monks reduced those plants to diminutive pieces.
Some days after this the persecution worsened, for this event was its basis, since years before in another monastery called Geoakuarius the siege had been constant, to the point where Navy helicopters constantly over flew almost every day, carrying out maneuvers suggesting that a possible attack was imminent, causing anxiety, desperation, fear and dread in the hundreds of women, men, children and elderly people that inhabit the monastery.
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