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July 20, 2010

Afro-Colombian Activist Assassinated
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In other news from Latin America, an Afro-Colombian activist named Jair
Murillo was assassinated on Saturday, a day before he was to take part
in a march led by internally displaced groups in Colombia. The
Washington Office on Latin America reports Murillo’s organization was
one of several Afro-Colombian groups that recently received death
threats from a paramilitary organization called the Black Eagles.



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