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October 31, 2019

Colombia Deploys Troops After Five Indigenous Leaders Killed in Cauca
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Colombia's government says it's deploying the military to the
southwestern province of Cauca after five indigenous people were
murdered on their reservation. Six others were wounded in Tuesday's
attack, after heavily armed assailants opened fire with guns and
grenades on a convoy of people responsible for security in the
semi-autonomous Nasa Tacueyo indigenous reserve. Among the dead was
community leader Cristina Bautista. Colombian President Iván Duque
traveled to the region on Wednesday, blaming dissidents in the FARC
rebel group who oppose a peace deal. But police have made no arrests and
no suspects have been named in the murders.


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