About 25 miles west of Toe'z, the village of Sua'rez sits between the mountains and the winding Cauca river. On a recent afternoon, a convoy of armoured 4x4s had drawn up outside a nondescript wooden house. A group of bodyguards in jeans and T-shirts kept watch out front, their pistols in concealed holsters.Inside, the region's most prominent activists had called an emergency meeting after Ibes Trujillo - a local activist who had campaigned against a local hydroelectric dam - was kidnapped and killed. He'ctor Marino, a close friend and fellow activist, was distraught. "They have killed my brother," he said, his voice charged with grief and rage. "The one who taught me the way of struggling, of resisting, and of perseverance." "The only crime we've committed is to defend our land and our rights," Marino said, adding that he has lost count of the death threats he has received. "We were 'military targets' during the conflict, and we still are today. "In other countries we would be respected and protected," Marino added. "In Colombia we are left to die."
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Please ask your Senators and your Congress member to convene some hearings to investigate this slaughter of indigenous leaders in Colombia and in Brazil. That is my humble request and our call to action.
These murders were compiled by the Washington Office on Latin America in an August 2018 article, and are listed at the end of my article today:
.wola.org/2018/08/colombian-activists-killed/
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"Every head has a Price": Colombia pamphlet circulated with threat of death to indigenous leaders
(Coverage by Russian Television)
The Association of Indigenous Councils of North Cauca, in Colombia, denounced that paramilitary groups distribute pamphlets offering money in exchange for the murder of indigenous leaders.
"Everything that is lobbying will have its price, for each head there is value," reads the document that puts at risk the lives of governors, captains, coordinators, guards and indigenous sheriffs, warned a statement from the association.
On paper, they offer up to five million pesos (more than 1,553 dollars) for murdering the authorities, according to their position and responsibility in the communities of Cauca. The threat circulated on the same day that the leaders of the indigenous peoples toured the municipality of Caloto, in the north of Cauca, where last week they murdered the indigenous authority of the area, Edwin Dagua Ipia, 25 years old.
At the beginning of December, the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia reported that with the murder of Dagua, 36 indigenous leaders have already been assassinated, so far in the administration of the president, Iva'n Duque.
Who published the pamphlet?
The pamphlet is signed by the DC Ã guilas Negras Bloc, a paramilitary group that announces that the "clean-up time" began, and immediately offers weapons, training and money to those willing to kill the leaders, according to their hierarchy and their politics.
The Association of Indigenous Councils of the North rejected the threat of death and alerted the organisms of control and defense of Human Rights in Colombia.
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