Anti-Militarism: News & Updates

death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Porvenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department.

assassination of Nasa indigenous members Mario German Valencia Vallejo, Belisario Trochez Ordóñez, Cristián David Trochez and disappearance of Berney Trochez and Wilson Trochez, all resisting illegal mining in Cauca

disappearances and assassinations of four students, ages 13-21, in Comayagüela: Elvin Antonio López, Darwin Josué Martínez, Diana Yareli Montoya, and 13-year-old Soad Nicolle Ham Bustillo, with clear signs of torture.

after the forced disappearance (and suspected assassinations) of 43 college students in Guerrero in September 2014, urging the government to improve and expedite its investigation

attacks on Marlene Benitez, her family, and other members of the Afro-descendant communities of the Curvaradó River Basin in Chocó Department.

death threats against 14 individuals and two human rights organizations, José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CCAJAR) and the Committee of Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP). Individuals include José Humberto Torres (CSPP); Leon Valencia and Ariel Avila (Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, PARES); José Aristizábal García, Fernando Hernández Valencia and Adolfo Bula (New Rainbow Corporation); and several politicians, including Senators Claudia López and Iván Cepeda, Mayor Gustavo Petro of Bogotá and his colleague, Gloria Flórez

killing of two journalists, Danilo Zapón López and Federico Salazar, and the wounding of a third, Marvin Israel Túnchez, in Mazatenango in Suchitepéquez Department.

death threat to journalist César Omar Silva Rosales by a military officer

assassination of radio journalists Luis Peralta (in Caquetá) and Edgar Quintero (Valle del Cauca) and intimidation and threats to radio journalist Geovanny Canacué, colleague of Luis Peralta

assassinations of four indigenous land rights activists in Cauca Department (Gerardo Velasco Escue, Emiliano Silva Oteca, Arturo Andrés Galindo Bastos and Carlos Algeiro Mera Pino) and death threats to indigenous community leader Alfredo Campo Lectamo and others speaking out against these killings