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The latest report of the Ombudsman's Office reveals a painful number: between 1 January 2016 and 30 June this year 311 human rights leaders were murdered in Colombia.
Only on Tuesday While all of Colombia was focused on the World Cup in Russia, Felicinda Santamaría and Luis Barrios, two leaders of Chocó and Atlántico, lost their lives in the hands of foreigners .
Read here: Map of the 311 rulers killed Colombia
By Felicinda and Luis and the hundreds of social leaders killed, human rights organizations called a large national Velatón .
In Medellín there are two concentrations: one in the Parque de los Deseos, in the north of the city, and another in the park of the president, in El Poblado.
In Parque de los Deseos, the flowers, candles and plaques with the names of the murdered social leaders symbolized the claim of the cudadanía: that the government protects those who dare to raise their voices and not to die for having defended their community.
"Let no one be killed for ideological and political reasons.There is no reason to kill anyone," said Daniel Montoya, one of the protesters, at EL COLOMBIANO [19659003] See images of Velatón that Colombians directed abroad
Multitudinous demonstration for the protection of human rights in the capital of Antioquia: [19659010] / *
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