Colombia: Hitmen assassinate an indigenous leader in Valle del Cauca

The indigenous leader Luis Eduardo Timaná García was shot dead on a highway in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca (southwest) of Colombiadenounced this Saturday an authority of the Nasa people.

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The Ministry of Self-Government of the Nasa People of Cauca’s Valley said in a statement that Timana was shot on Friday when he was going with his wife to the Kwet Wala Indigenous Reservation in the municipality of Pradera.

There “he was intercepted by two men who were traveling on a motorcycle and shot at point blank range several times, killing him instantly.”

According to the Institute for Development and Peace (Indepaz), this year they have been assassinated in Colombia 100 social leaders.

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Likewise, the organization said that so far this year they have been assassinated in Cauca 22 leaders and human rights defendersfive demobilized and that four massacres have been perpetrated that leave 12 dead.

Leader murdered indigenouswho was governor of a town hall, had run as a candidate for the Pradera Council for the Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social (MAIS).

According to the Ministry, Timana had been threatened in recent days through pamphlets by the Segunda Marquetalia, one of the two dissidents of the FARC and by paramilitaries, known in the region as the Black Eagles.

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The natives They called on the Colombian government and the competent entities to provide the “maximum security and guarantees of protection” to the leaders of the Nasa indigenous people of the southwest of the country, who constantly receive threats.

The indigenous senator for the MAIS Aida Quilcué Movement demanded from the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, “urgent and effective measures” to protect the lives of social leaders.

Source: Elcomercio

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