translated from Spanish: The wave of murders follows: two other social leaders in Colombia are killed in the last hours

This Saturday he was killed on the sidewalk Honduras, Cauca department, Andrés Andrelio Cacimanca Burbano, husband of a social leader who was attacked by armed individuals. Neighbors of the Area of Honduras have explained that several strangers arrived asking for the wife of Cacimanca, chair of the sports committee of the sidewalk, but when they did not find it, they shot at it, reports the Colombian newspaper ‘El Tiempo’. This murder adds to last Friday’s perpetrated against the social leader Teodomiro Sotelo Anacona, member of the Afrorenacer del Micay Community Council and the National Agrarian Coordinator (CAN). Sotelo was killed at the home of El Tambo, Cauca department.Social and community organizations in the Cauca region have reported this murder: a group of armed men entered Sotelo’s home and was shot in front of his family, according to the TeleSur network.” We strongly condemn the murder of Teodomiro Sotelo Anacona in Cauca. We mourn your loss with your family and your community. Our call for all violence by all armed groups to cease,” said the European Union’s ambassador to Colombia, Patricia Llombart.La community has denounced the delicate situation in the Pacific mountain range region, specifically in the municipality of Algeria, because in addition to the fighting between armed groups there has been looting in homes. The situation of organizers and social leaders in communities in rural Tambo is at risk following constant threats from irregular groups. Several social leaders have already fled the area.” We had already alerted the authorities and, so far, no necessary measures have been taken to address this humanitarian crisis in Cauca, which is claiming the lives of people in the community,” said the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE). According to figures handled by the Colombian Police and Prosecutor’s Office, during the first four months of 2020, thirteen social leaders were killed, 43 fewer than the UN special mission has accounted for. The Government of Colombia has also accounted for since 2016 to April 2020 the murders of 364 of social leaders, 55 percent of whom are already under investigation.

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