More than 1000 community leaders, human rights defenders assassinated during Colombia's peace proces [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

More than 1000 community leaders, human rights defenders assassinated during Colombia’s peace process: report
by Adriaan Alsema August 24, 2020

At least 1,000 of Colombia’s human rights defenders and community leaders have been assassinated since the beginning of a peace process in late 2016, according to a conflict monitoring NGO.

The assassinated leader who became the 1000th victims of what increasingly begins to look like a genocide was Fabio Andres Gomez, a farming community leader from Argelia, a town in the southwestern Cauca province, according to Indepaz.

Gomez was assassinated on Tuesday in the province that has been hardest hit by the mass killings that has mainly been targeting indigenous leaders, who have claimed the killings are part of an attempted extinction.

The killings picked up after the FARC‘s disarmament and really got out of control in 2018, the year congressional and presidential elections were held.

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https://colombiareports.com/colombia-killed-more-than-community-leaders-human-rights-defenders-assassinated-during-peace-process/