Colombia: 5th Afro-Rural Leader Killed Since Cease-Fire Began
Colombia: 5th Afro-Rural Leader Killed Since Cease-Fire Began
Published 13 September 2016 (4 hours 27 minutes ago)
Social organizations are warning that peace will not be realized until right-wing paramilitarism is annihilated.
Afro-descendent rural leader Nestor Ivan Martinez was shot twice and killed at his farm on Sunday night, according to social organizations from the central province of Cesar—the fifth rural leader killed in Colombia since the beginning of the cease-fire between FARC rebels and the government.
According to the communique issued by the Peoples' Congress, a group of hitmen went to his farm in La Sierra town, in the Cesar province, tying up the farm's manager as well as Martinez' wife. When Martinez finally arrived home, they shot him twice in the head.
Martinez was leading the defense of the territory against mining projects carried out in the province at the Community Council of Black communities in La Sierra, El Cruce, and La Estacion, or CONESICE, in the center of Cesar province.
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