Please, meet Colombias community leaders who were either assassinated or attacked this month

Please, meet Colombia’s community leaders who were either assassinated or attacked this month

written by David Maas November 23, 2016

A surge in attacks on community leaders and human rights defenders that followed the sinking of Colombia’s peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels is leaving a new generation of widows and orphans.

Just this past weekend, three social leaders were killed and two gravely injured in attacks carried out by paramilitary-like forces, adding to several deaths earlier this month.

President Juan Manuel Santos denounced the killings and called a meeting of a high-level human rights commission “to take actions against the crimes and aggression against social leaders. Peace does not wait.”

In the meantime, the violence is targeting mainly social leaders who have nothing to do with the armed conflict.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/please-meet-colombias-community-leaders-either-assassinated-attacked-month/