As Colombia's indigenous peoples are demanding protection through the Social Minga (march), 4 indigenous leaders have been killed in 24 hours, while President Ivan Duque shows no will to meet to them.
Four indigenous community leaders were murdered in 24 hours in Colombia in three violent events in the departments of Huila, Cauca, and Córdoba.
These new acts of violence against Colombia's indigenous peoples occurred when the Indigenous Social Minga is in Bogotá.
Community members Avelino Ipia and Hector David Marin were shot dead in the Guaico Alizal village, in the Caucan municipality of Caldono. They were attacked by armed men on Monday night.
In response to what happened, a commission made up of indigenous and civil authorities went to the site to remove the bodies and begin an investigation to find the perpetrators.
Aurelio Jumi Domico, vice-governor of the Quebrada Cañaveral Emberá Katío Indigenous Reservation in San Jorge, was murdered this Tuesday morning in the village of Ibudó - Tres Playitas, in the municipality of Puerto Libertador, in the province of Córdoba.
Domico was a recognized leader of that community, a spokesman for the departmental Peace and Human Rights Council, and the Mesa de Garantías for leaders and defenders of Córdoba denounced the Cordoberxia Foundation.
in the village of Las Vueltas in Huila's rice capital, in southern Colombia, social and rural leader Eduardo Alarcón was murdered by a group of armed men who arrived at his farm on a motorcycle and shot at him.
Eduardo Alarcón was a recognized agrarian leader in Huila, who, together with other small farmers, managed to divide up several large estates in Llano Grande, in the municipality of Campo Alegre. He was a councilman in this municipality and a champion of agrarian and social struggles, belonging to the Alternative Pole.
