"We are defenders of life and we will not let them keep snatching us," they said in the statement.
From 2006 to 2018 circulated more than 280 pamphlets signed by the Black Eagles threatening to kill not only indigenous authorities but peasant leaders in eight regions of Colombia, as reported by El Espectador.
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Meanwhile, the communications office of the Cric issued a message of rejection of the homicide, the second that is presented in less than 48 hours in this city in North Cauca:
"They will not silence us, their bullets will kill the body but the ideas, the conviction, the verraquera and the essence of Edwin Dagua Ipia and the Nasa people will follow more alive and stronger than ever. This young guard, liberator of Mother Earth and 'pinche comunero', as he humbly described himself, will continue to be present in each of our hearts. Today the cowards, the assassins, the policy of death of the State and their neoliberal model of extermination, took your life, but your seed will germinate and the young people will honor your name," reads the short statement sent to the journalists.
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A Press release from the Nasa Tribe:
THE FORCE OF PEOPLES OVERCOMES DEATH The death of our authority Ne'jwe'sx, Edwin Dagua Ipia fills us with a deep pain. Further, the murder of Luis Neider Prado Medina, a 23-year-old resident of the San Francisco indigenous reservation of Natala, perpetrated in the vicinity of Palo municipality of Caloto. Also the death of Soledad Ramà rez, Gladis Rivera, Henry Ulcue Finscue and more than 10 murders that took place in less than a week ...
aacin.org/tag/edwin-dagua-ipia/
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Over 7 social leaders assassinated in Colombia just in December
The rampant assassination of Colombia's social leaders continues with impunity.
Tanya Wadhwa, reporting for Newsclick 16 Dec 2018
In the face of these developments, social, political, indigenous and human rights organizations and activists across Colombia are demanding justice, a thorough investigation of the events that have taken place and an end to violence in Colombia.
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