[News] Politician, Social Leader, 3 Ex-FARC Members Killed in Colombia

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  Politician, Social Leader, 3 Ex-FARC Members Killed in Colombia

September 7, 2019
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A political candidate, a social leader and three former combatants of 
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were murdered in the 
Toledo, Cucuta and the Choco regions in the last 24 hours, local sources 
reported.

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The candidate for the mayorship of Toledo, located in Antioquia, 
northwest Colombia, Orley Garcia, was killed on Saturday after been shot 
more than 10 times. The Colombian Seventh Division of the Army and the 
Police reported that they are in the process of identifying those 
responsible.

He was hospitalized urgently in the local hospital, but due to his 
critical condition transferred by helicopter to Medellin, where he 
succumbed to his wounds.

Earlier on Saturday authorities in the northeastern Cucuta region 
reported the murder of three ex-combatants of FARC, who were part of the 
Territorial Training and Reincorporation Agency (ETCR) in Caño Indio, a 
place created for ease adaptation of ex-members into civilian life.

The ex-insurgents were gunned down by a hitman in a city hotel that 
resulted in two fatalities, Milton Urrutia Mora and Jose Milton Peña 
Pineda, and a third who resulted injured who were referred to a health 
center.

According to the report from the Cucuta police, none of the men had a 
security scheme or escorts to protect their lives.

*#Colombia New murders of social leader and ex-combatants.*

In addition to these deaths, social leader Jose Cortes, president of the 
Llorente Community Action Board was also killed in Nariño, southwest of 
Colombia, as well as the ex-combatant in the process of reintegration 
Jakson Mena in the  Department of Choco, northwest Colombia.

Just over a year after Ivan Duque’s ascension to the Colombia 
Presidency, one of the major problems affecting his mandate has been the 
repeated assassination of social leaders in the country, to which his 
government has failed to react.

According to the director of the Institute of Studies for Development 
and Peace, Camilo Gonzalez, a compilation of murders revealed that 229 
human rights defenders have been killed since the right-wing president 
took over in August 2018.

"It gives us 229 people, social leaders who since August 7 have been 
killed because of their defense of the territory and their communities," 
Gonzalez explained.

While the murders of former FARC combatants in the country, from 
November 2016 to June 2019, add up to 139.

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