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Bogota, July 16 (EFE) .- The collective of the Human Rights Network Francisco Isaias Cifuentes today denounced the badbadination of the social leader Luis Eduardo Dagua, whose body has was found in the Colombian municipality of Caloto, in the convulsed department of Cauca (
According to a statement of the organization, the body of Dagua was found Monday by settlers from the village of El Carmelo [19659003] "The lifeless body has marks of torture on the neck and face.For items found in the vicinity, the killing took place because of stone throwing," detailed information.
Dagua was a member of the National Federation of the Agricultural Union (Fensuagro), as well as the Patriotic Movement of March and Process.About this type of killings, the Colombian prosecutor, Fernando Carrillo, warned that he could there are disciplinary sanctions for mayors and governors rs who do not have a policy to defend the peasants against the attacks. "If we want to use disciplinary power so that mayors and governors have public policies, budgets and clear action for the defense of social leaders, that's how we're going to go from the front, "he said. Carrillo in the installation of the "Table for the protection of life", in Santander de Quilichao (Cauca).
Al announces the creation of the Social Dialogue Delegate, which will aim to facilitate dialogue between leaders and human rights defenders in the protest scenarios taking place in the country, Carrillo invited social leaders and defenders Human rights to institutional action to "immobilize" those responsible for the murders.
According to the director of the elite body of the police for the protection of social leaders, Colonel Jose Restrepo, at least 178 of these militants have been murdered in the country since November 2016, date when the peace agreement between the government and the FARC has been signed.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Ombudsman said in a report that between January 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018, 311 leaders had been killed. EFE
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