Days after attack in southwest Colombia, local leaders threatened with "extermination"

Days after attack in southwest Colombia, local leaders threatened with “extermination”
by Adriaan Alsema May 7, 2019

The 16 black minority leaders who survived an assassination attempt in southwest Colombia on Saturday on Monday received threats claiming “this is just the beginning of your extermination.”

According to Victor Hugo Moreno, one of the survivors of the attack that injured two bodyguards, told weekly Semana that he and other ethnic minority leaders from the troubled Cauca received new threats on Monday.

Moreno received a message on his phone threatening him and other participants in recent indigenous protests in Cauca will be “exterminated.”

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The outburst of violence targeting the leaders was only the latest in a wave of violence that has killed at least 462 leaders throughout Colombia in the past three years, according to the ombudsman.

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