Indigenous rights leader reported slain in northern Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Updated 5:09 pm CDT, Thursday, October 25, 2018

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An indigenous rights activist has been slain in the Sierra Madre mountains of northern Mexico just weeks after community members complained about a mining concession granted to outside parties on their ancestral lands.

Julian Carrillo is a leader of the Tarahumara community of Coloradas de la Virgen in Chihuahua state. The Tarahumara have fought illegal logging and other enterprises.

Amnesty International says Carrillo was pursued and killed Wednesday evening. The group said Carrillo had received government protection since 2014 through a program to safeguard human rights activists but armed men continued to threaten the community.

Carrillo's house was burned in 2016, and four of his family members had been slain over the last three years.

https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Indigenous-rights-leader-reported-slain-in-13337140.php

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Google translation:

They kill the defender of indigenous rights in Chihuahua
Amnesty International condemned the killing of Julián Carrillo, leader of the Tarahumara village of Las Coloradas de la Virgen

By: AP

October 25, 2018 - 6:38 p.m.



Carrillo's house was burned down in 2016, and four of her relatives were killed in the past three years.
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A defender of indigenous rights was killed in the mountains of the Sierra Madre weeks after members of a community complained about a mining concession granted to third parties on their ancestral lands.

Julian Carrillo was the leader of the Tarahumara village of the Coloradas de la Virgen , in the state of Chihuahua . The Tarahumara have fought illegal logging and other land holdings.

The state government on Thursday condemned the murder that took place last night, and confirmed that the activist was a beneficiary of the federal program for the protection of human rights defenders .

Therefore, the prosecution ordered that it be investigated whether the attack "could have come from the caciques of that region, in response to the defense that has been made of their community and the rights of indigenous peoples."

More:
https://www.informador.mx/mexico/Asesinan-a-defensor-de-los-derechos-indigenas-en-Chihuahua-20181025-0137.html