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"They're killing us:" Colombia's social leaders take their case to Washington
by Adriaan Alsema October 3, 2018
Social leaders traveled from Colombia to Washington DC this week to meet with the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) and US officials to seek protection after the assassination of more than 340 since 2016.
Around the time President Ivan Duque met his American counterpart Donald Trump in New York, social leader Hector Marino Carabali from Cauca arrived at the iACHR offices to talk about the mass killing of land claimants, human rights defenders and other activists.
While all the camera crews were in New York, Carabali met with State Department officials, US senators and human rights organizations to draw attention to the plight of Colombia’s social leaders.
“The world must know that they are killing us and the government does nothing,” Carabali told newspaper El Espectador.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/they-are-killing-us-colombias-social-leaders-take-their-case-to-washington/
