The other curve that does not flatten in Colombia: 278 people have been killed in 70 massacres during 2020

There are 278 Colombians who have been killed so far in 2020 in 70 massacres, as reported by the Indepaz Observatory of Conflicts, Peace and Human Rights. The worrying panorama in the country reflects a worsening of violence in the most remote regions, with a strong presence of illegal armed groups and little presence of the State..

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In the most recent report of the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz), the department of Antioquia is the one that leads the tragic list of massacres committed this year with 15 massacres, then Cauca appears with 10 and Nariño with 9. Many of them recorded in the media that show the human stories behind these violent deaths.

September was the month in which the most massacres were registered in Colombia with 16; In August, 11 violent incidents were reported that left several dead and April, the month of the quarantine, registered 9 massacres. A peak in deaths on the curve of a pandemic of violence that adds to the calamity of covid-19.

Indepaz also lists the massacres that have occurred this year in Colombia with a date and record of victims. There is that of the 8 young people from Samaniego (Nariño) on August 15; That of the five children murdered in a canyon in Valle del Cauca on August 11; And the most recent occurred on October 30, in which three people from the same family were murdered in Mercaderes, Cauca.

With the slogan “They are not collective homicides but massacres”, Indepaz presented this report. But the massacres are not the only violent events that are worrying Colombians, there is also the murder of social leaders.

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The most recent victim of this reprehensible crime was the Colombian-Spanish social leader. Juana Perea Plata, who was found shot in the head this Thursday on a beach in Nuquí, Chocó.

The activist who opposed the construction of the port of Tribugá, in the Pacific, was a community leader in the sector and ran an ecotourism hotel in Termales.

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Two weeks ago the murder of Jhon Jairo Guzmán was recorded, known not only in the El Tesorito village, but also in Tarazá, Antioquia for his work as a social leader. In that region, Lower Cauca Antioquia, Violence has escalated during 2020, due to the dispute between the self-styled Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and their dissidents, the Caparrapos, illegal armed structures dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion and illegal mining in this area of ​​the country.

In October, 12 murders of social leaders were registered. One of them was perpetrated four days before the lifeless body of Jhon Jairo Guzmán was found, also in Antioquia, in El Bagre. It was the peasant leader Mary Luz Pérez, entrepreneur and member of the project “Woman Sowing” of the municipality.

In recent days, specifically on October 14, Erlin Undagama, a teacher and governor of the Embera community in Alto Baudo, Chocó, was also assassinated. The case was added to 167 cases of indigenous people murdered during the government of Iván Duque.