Attacks, threats continue against Colombia rights leaders
Attacks, threats continue against Colombia rights leaders
written by David Maas November 28, 2016
Colombia’s human rights and community leaders continue to be the target of assassination attempts and death threats in an apparent surge in paramilitary violence.
On Monday, indigenous governor Humberto Chiran from the southwestern Nariño province barely survived an assassination attempt. On Saturday, a local human rights leader survived an assassination attempts in Cartagena after a firefight with assassins and her bodyguards.
Another incident was the distribution of a pamphlet threatening seven members of the Patriotic March social movement, including its leader former Liberal Party senator Piedad Cordoba.
The pamphlet, signed by the urban command of the paramilitary successor group, the AGC, a.k.a. “Los Urabeños,” offers rewards for “(social) cleansing” and the “heads” of social leaders and supposed guerrilla collaborators in Barrancabermeja, an oil town on the border of the Santander and Antioquia provinces.
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