While FARC was demobilizing, 37 social leaders were assassinated in Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

written by Adriaan Alsema June 28, 2017


Between a peace agreement with Colombia’s government and the disarmament of the country’s largest guerrilla group FARC, 37 social leaders were assassinated in the country. Many others remain under imminent threat.

News website Pacifista.co has kept an increasingly grim count of the wide variety of social leaders who have been killed in an eerily similar pattern to that of the 1980s and 1990s when thousands of members of the Marxist Patriotic Union Party were killed.

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The last leader to be killed before the last FARC guerrilla handed in his weapon was Mauricio Fernando Lopez, a leader of the teachers union of the Valle University where he trained the university soccer team.

In front of family members, a group of hooded men entered his home, gagged him and dragged him away. A few hours later his apparently tortured body was found just miles from his home.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/farc-demobilizing-37-social-leaders-assassinated-colombia/

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141809825

[gtar100]

1. Well how else can a right-wing, conservative government hold onto power.

As if they could actually stand on principles of good governance, respect for human rights and fair labor practices. That's just too much for them to swallow. They have no choice but to be assholes. Ethics and integrity just isn't their thing.