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<h1 class="reader-title">Colombia: Three Indigenous Leaders
Killed by Hitmen</h1>
October 18, 2019</div>
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<p>Colombian human rights defender Alirio Uribe Muñoz on
Thursday announced that three indigenous leaders were
killed, which means that 234 social activists have been
killed since <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Students-Demand-Duque-Fulfill-2018-Agreements-20191011-0003.html"
target="_blank">President Ivan Duque</a> took office
on August 7, 2018.</p>
<p>The people killed were Oneida Epiayu, who died in
Riohacha in La Guajira; Lilia Patricia Garcia, who died
in the Watsalpi territory in Nariño; and Constantino
Ramirez, a leader of the Embera people.</p>
<p>These cases were confirmed by the National Indigenous
Organization of Colombia (ONIC), which recalled
that Ramirez was a founder of the Regional Indigenous
Organization of Quindio (Oriquin).</p>
<p>Before being killed, Epiayu, a female lawyer, had
reported alleged acts of corruption at the food
programs which are being carried out by the Colombian
Family Welfare Institute (ICBF).</p>
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<p>Presidente <a
href="https://twitter.com/IvanDuque?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvanDuque</a></p>
<p> ¿El exterminio de líderes indígenas por todo
el país no merece un pronunciamiento del
gobierno?</p>
<p> En Quindío mataron a Constantino Ramírez
(Emberá), en Guajira a<br>
Oneida Epiayú (Wayuú), en Nariño a Lilia García
y en Cauca a Toribio Canas.</p>
<p> ¿Hasta cuando? <a
href="https://t.co/GTudb6jUDE">pic.twitter.com/GTudb6jUDE</a></p>
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— Jorge Rojas ��#1 (@jerojasrodrigue) <a
href="https://twitter.com/jerojasrodrigue/status/1185171728500232192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
18, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p><strong>"President Ivan Duque: Does the extermination
of indigenous leaders across the country not deserve a
statement from the government? They killed Constantino
Ramirez (Embera) in Quindio, Oneida Epiayu (Wayuu) in
Guajira, Lilia Garcia in Nariño and Toribio Canas in
Nariño. Until when?"</strong></p>
<p>The Indigenous lawyer was killed while she was having
lunch with her family in a restaurant where two gunmen
shot her at close range.</p>
<p>"Someone who was there said that a police patrol had
passed by very slowly and, soon after, two subjects
aboard a black motorcycle arrived," local media El
Heraldo reported.</p>
<p>According to the Ombudsman's Office statistics, 196
social leaders and human rights defenders have been
killed in Colombia from March 2018 to May 2019.</p>
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