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January 31, 2019

Colombia: 2 Community Leaders Killed Amid Mounting Attacks on Activists
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In Colombia, local media is reporting that two community leaders were
killed over the past week. A gunman shot and killed Dilio Corpus Guetio,
a member of the local peasant association, as he was leaving his house
in a rural area of the southwestern department of Cauca. In Valle del
Cauca, two men shot community leader and housing activist José Jair
Orozco in the doorway of his home last Thursday. Human rights groups
have been sounding the alarm over the mounting violence against
activists in Colombia. At least 16 activists were murdered so far this
year, according to a local research and advocacy group.


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