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A new murder brings to 137 the number of social leaders killed in Colombia since the beginning of the year

MADRID, 8 Oct.

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A new murder brings to 137 the number of social leaders killed in Colombia since the beginning of the year

MADRID, 8 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) of Colombia has denounced a new murder of a social leader, identified as Edinson Murillo Ararat, in the department of Cauca, in the southwest of the country.

Ararat, a member of the Cimarrona Guard and a member of the Cuenca Community Council, in the north of the department, was assaulted on Thursday by two armed men when he was traveling by motorcycle with his escort, Yeifer Medina Chivatá, in the village of Taminango.

Chivatá also died in the attack, confirms the Colombian organization.

With this death, 137 social leaders have been assassinated in Colombia so far in 2022, and 1,364 since the signing of the Peace Accords in 2016, according to Indepaz estimates.

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