Land claimant assassinated, presumably by forces wanting to keep war trophys written by Adriaan Alse

Land claimant assassinated, presumably by forces wanting to keep war trophys
written by Adriaan Alsema January 30, 2017


Deadly attacks against displaced war victims trying to have their land returned cost yet another life on Sunday in an ongoing wave of violence against community leaders in Colombia.

The latest killing took place in a rural part of Turbo, a hotbed of paramilitary activity where forced displacement in the 1990s and early 2000s was particularly prevalent.

According to newspaper El Tiempo, Porfirio Jaramillo was kidnapped by unidentified armed men while with his family.

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According to numerous human rights organizations dedicated to the war-torn Uraba region, authorities have been warned about the life-threatening situation of displaced farmers demanding the return of their land and have constantly been informed on aggression, intimidation and threats against the local farmers.

In total, some 15% of Colombia’s entire national territory was stolen from small farmers in an apparent attempts to use the country’s armed conflict for the benefit of large land owners and multinationals.

Because of the prosecution’s chronic dysfunctionality, there is no saying how many land claimants have been assassinated over the past few years.

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