<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div id="container" class="container font-size5 content-width3">
<div id="reader-header" class="header" style="display: block;"> <font
size="-2"><a id="reader-domain" class="domain"
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombian-Activist-Plinio-Pulgarin-Killed-by-Paramilitaries-as-Forced-Displacements-Continue-20180119-0009.html">https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombian-Activist-Plinio-Pulgarin-Killed-by-Paramilitaries-as-Forced-Displacements-Continue-20180119-0009.html</a></font>
<h1 id="reader-title">Colombian Activist Plinio Pulgarin Killed
by Paramilitaries as Forced Displacements Continue<br>
</h1>
<div id="meta-data" class="meta-data">
<div id="reader-estimated-time">19 January 2018</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr>
<div class="content">
<div id="moz-reader-content" class="line-height4"
style="display: block;">
<div id="readability-page-1" class="page">
<div class="txt_newworld" itemprop="articleBody">
<p>On Thursday another Colombian social activist, Plinio
Pulgarin, was killed by paramilitaries in the department
of Cordoba, a region rife with a continued displacement
of families.</p>
<p>A social pillar and a promoter of voluntary replacement
of illicit crops for legal products in the community,
Pulgarin worked as the president of the Community Action
Board of San Pedrito. The news of his death, which took
place in the wee hours of Thursday morning, has rocked
the town creating fear that more incidents could occur
in the coming days. </p>
<p>Also fueling fear in the community is the continued
forced displacement of families in the region. Within
hours of Pulgarin's murder, paramilitary forces
barged into homes and displaced at least 70 families.</p>
<p>Activist Andres Chica denounced the forced eradication
by paramilitaries, recounting the experience of another
community activist who was targeted and harassed by
militia in the midst of the fray.</p>
<p>"Mr. Plinio Pulgarín was the coordinator of that area
in advancing all the supplies for the respective
substitution, just like Mrs. Diana Dorado,” Chica said.</p>
<p>“In the early hours of today (Thursday, January 18),
armed men, unknown until now, arrive in Plinio and told
Mrs. Diana Dorado that they were giving her half an hour
to leave,” he said, adding that the militia corralled
the rest of the community and told the congregations of
over 50 families they had to leave their homes by noon
that day.</p>
<p>Since the evacuation of Colombia guerrilla groups, such
as the FARC and the ELN in the wake of the Peace
Agreements, illegal paramilitary groups have flooded
into the regions and continue to enact violence
against rural communities.</p>
<p>Over the last year, hundreds of social activists,
indigenous leaders, and former guerilla militia have
fallen victim to Colombia’s violence which human rights
groups have denounced as government negligence towards
the terms of the peace accords continues.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 863.9977
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://freedomarchives.org/">https://freedomarchives.org/</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>