So far in 2022, 110 social leaders have been assassinated in Colombia. The most recent occurred this August 2, when Jose Luis Quinones, who was in his home in the Tamalameque municipality of Cesar, was attacked by an armed group that took his life.
"This leader was assassinated while at his home in the urban area of the municipality of Tamalameque, where heavily armed men arrived and attacked him, causing his death," reported the Human Rights, Peace, and Conflict Observatory of the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz).
According to the Indepaz report, published on his account on the social network Twitter, Quiñones was a member of the Interlocution Commission of the South of Bolívar, North and South of Cesar, affiliated with the National Peasant Association, CNA.
Quiñones, the document refers, was in the process of recovering land on the Mata Redonda farm.
Líderis social murdered
Until this Tuesday, Indepaz had identified 109 murders of social leaders and human rights defenders in Colombia. Only a day later the figure changed.
A report from this organization indicates that the violent acts began in the first days of January, and have not stopped.
Unfortunately, in Colombia, "between two and three homicides are reported weekly in both rural and urban areas of regions such as Cauca, Antioquia, Norte de Santander, Chocó, Nariño, and Caquetá."
Victim 109 of the social and indigenous leaders responded to the name of Maria Veronica Pai Head, who was murdered this Sunday, July 31, in the municipality of Tumaco (Nariño). She was six months pregnant.
Pai Cabezas was a member of the Piguambi Palangala indigenous reservation of the Awá community. The murder occurred in the Vaquerío village of the Llorente corregimiento and in the middle of a public road.
violence on the rise
Since the signing of the Peace Agreement in 2016, 1.337 social and peasant leaders have been assassinated. Colombia.
A few days after leaving the presidency, the national president, Iván Duque, leaves a Colombia with high murder rates: 50.179 people lost their lives from 2018 to 2022, reveals an Indepaz report.
Various social organizations, including the United Nations Organization (UN), have reiterated their calls to Colombians to spare no effort so that the peace agreement works, even in the midst of the wave of violence that is going through the country.
