[News] Colombia Witnesses Murder of 17th Social Leader in 2019

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  Colombia Witnesses Murder of 17th Social Leader in 2019

30 January 2019
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A Colombian Campesino leader Dilio Corpus Guetio, 44,  who was a member 
of Asocordillera (Mountain Area Association of Campesino Workers) and 
also a member of the local Campesino Guard militia was shot to death 
Tuesday.

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Corpus Guetio left his home in the municipality of Suarez in the 
department of Cauca, in southwest Colombia, at around six in the morning 
for work. On the way armed men from a car shot him several times.

"The murderers were in a van which hit him and made him lose control of 
his bike. At that point, they got out of the car to get close to Dilio, 
who was already injured and he was shot repeatedly, killing him,” said a 
representative from the United National Federation of Agricultural 
Unions (FENSUAGRO).

Studies for Development and Peace, Indepaz, say that within the 29 days 
of 2019, 16 social leaders have been killed in Colombia, excluding 
Corpus Guetio.

Dilio was known for his work monitoring rural areas and protecting the 
territory and its inhabitants. His murder case has been registered in 
the village of Santa Barbara, his place of work.

This week another community leader from Cuca, Jose Jair Orozco, 52, was 
also assassinated.

    #Urgente
    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Urgente?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
    La @Reddhfic <https://twitter.com/Reddhfic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
    denuncia el asesinato del lider social defensor de derechos humanos
    Dilio Corpus Guetio integrante de la asociación campesina
    Asocordillera filial Fensuagro- Cauca, el día de hoy en el municipio
    de Suárez. ¡Que pare el genocidio. Que pare la matanza!
    pic.twitter.com/FbW3Wav4CB <https://t.co/FbW3Wav4CB>

    — ColectivoDeAbogad at s (@Ccajar) January 29, 2019
    <https://twitter.com/Ccajar/status/1090352078696992771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>


*“# Urgent The @ Reddhfic denounces the murder of social leader human 
rights defender Dilio Corpus Guetio, member of 
the Campesino association, Asocordillera Fialuagro-Cauca, today in the 
municipality of Suarez. Stop the genocide. Stop the killing!”*

Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez said in early 
January that the greatest number of Colombians murdered over the past 
two years since the signing of the peace agreement have been social 
leaders who serve on Communal Action Boards (JAC).

JACs began in the 1950s and are local-level councils where citizens 
decide upon, plan and develop community projects based on their own 
needs. The majority of JACs are in rural areas and members include 
mainly low-income Campesino, Indigenous, and Afro-Colombian members of 
society.

According to Martinez, the assassinations of JAC leaders is "passively 
systematic." The attorney general said that those responsible are 
paramilitary groups “such as the “Gulf Clan” that works on behalf of 
narco traffickers and “Los Caparrapos" he added.

Indigenous people made up 13 percent of those killed and farmers 10 
percent. Union leaders and social leaders, Afro-Colombians and LGBTI 
population were the other main murder victims.

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