Social leader assassinated in Otanche (Boyacá)



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The Commander of the First Army Brigade, Colonel Omar Zapata, confirmed that Horacio Triana Parra Chairman of the Community Action Committee of the Village of El Carmen – Betania, was murdered in the last hours ] of the municipality of Otanche (Boyacá).

The victim becomes the first social leader killed in the department of Boyacá .

In the 2015 elections, Triana Parra was launched by the Conservative Party in the Council of the Municipality of Otanche

The country must reject the badbadinations of social leaders. Do you have the list of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense and the Ombudsman most at risk? What protective measures did you take for them? RIP Horacio Triana murdered in Otanche, Boyacá

– Marta Lucía Ramírez (@mluciaramirez) 20 July 2018

Her death occurred while she was picking bananas from her farm . According to witnesses, three bullet wounds were heard

Situation in Boyacá

The incident occurred a few weeks after the announcement of a report of the Office of the Ombudsman indicating that there were threats of death against social leaders in 40 of the 123 municipalities of Boyacá

In the provinces of Norte, Gutierrez, La Libertad, Oriente , Occidente and Sugamuxi there was more intimidation against the rulers

According to the Ombudsman of Boyacá, Mauricio Reyes, the municipalities most at risk are Paya, Pisba, Labranzagrande , El Espino, Soatá, Socotá, Socha, Otanche, Muzo, Chiquinquirá, Paz del Río, Duitama, Sogamoso, Aquitaine

He also badured that the authorities are aware of the situation which is registered with human rights defenders in the department.

We reject the homicide of the leader Horacio Triana Parra, president of the JAC of Betania, municipality of Otanche, Boyaca. #BastaYa pic.twitter.com/04A6m37H95

– Defensoría delPueblo (@DefensoriaCol) 20 July 2018

" The military forces deployed pointed out that the presence of the armed group of the ELN had even caused the displacement of several families in the region 19659003] After the clashes between the army, the police ELN, in the month of February, the displacement of three families from the municipality of Pisba was registered and there is a risk of continuing with the uprooting in the locality of Paya, as the l '; warned the Attorney General of the Nation

Paya is one of the municipalities that limit geographically with the Department of Casanare.

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