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<h1 class="reader-title">Colombia Witnesses Murder of 17th
Social Leader in 2019</h1>
30 January 2019 </div>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>"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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This week another community leader from Cuca, Jose Jair
Orozco, 52, was also assassinated.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="es"><a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Urgente?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Urgente</a>
La <a
href="https://twitter.com/Reddhfic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reddhfic</a>
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! <a href="https://t.co/FbW3Wav4CB">pic.twitter.com/FbW3Wav4CB</a></p>
— ColectivoDeAbogad@s (@Ccajar) <a
href="https://twitter.com/Ccajar/status/1090352078696992771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January
29, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p><strong>“# 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!”</strong></p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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