Colombia: murder of social leader Fredy Bomba “hurts the family, the people and the indigenous people”

“This hurts the family, the people and the indigenous movement (…) Fredy was a firm, loyal, responsible and convinced man of the cause,” Aida Quilcué, an indigenous senator, lamented this Saturday during the funeral of Fredy Bomba , indigenous leader murdered at his home in Colombia.

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Between tears and the green and red colors typical of the indigenous flag, his companions buried him this Saturday in the village of Granadillo, a rural area of ​​the municipality of Caldono, in the department of Cauca, where the indigenous “have been systematically beaten, because this is the area where people have been murdered the most,” Quilcué lamented to EFE.

Bomba, president of the Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social (MAIS), had a security scheme assigned by the National Protection Unit (UNP) and was in the middle of a family reunion on Wednesday when three hooded men entered his home and shot at him. in front of his wife and two children, wounding one of his security members.

“We were all in the kitchen,” his wife, Ximena Yatacué, who was with their two youngest children and four nephews, told EFE.

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“When I turned around, I saw some people dressed in black behind him and my nephews began to scream, then I realized they had something in their hands. At first I thought they were guards, but then I realized they were rifles, ”Ximena continued, while one of her children cried next to her.

The UN Office for Human Rights in Colombia called on the competent authorities for justice to be done for the crime perpetrated against Bomba, while asking that “strategies be strengthened to protect communities, leaders and organizational processes in Cauca.

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“The Cauca indigenous movement has to think of something that will help us find a way out and stop the war, we cannot allow them to continue murdering the people who contribute to the town, which has built a process with love for many years,” expressed the indigenous senator.

Through tears, Quilcué demanded in a sob that “the country has to do something, the president has to do something.” “I have made calls over and over again, but I feel that sometimes you don’t listen,” added the senator while her voice broke.

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Fredy “was a great person, a great husband, a great friend, a great father, a defender of life and the territory who wanted to help all people. He sometimes said ‘how can I help so many people who are in such great need?’” That is why more actions are needed so that more like him are not killed by his leadership, Ximena asked.

“Instead of taking a weapon, I invite the young people to take a drum, a guitar or a flute”, to end the conflict, added the wife of the murdered leader.

“Seeing Fredy’s 4-year-old boy feel the pain of his father’s departure, like many children in Colombia who have been orphaned, breaks the soul,” lamented Quilcué, who defended that there can be no more orphaned children in Colombia due to the armed conflict.

Source: Elcomercio

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