Social Leaders in Columbia Murdered

Susan · #1 ● 07-06-2018, 03:39 AM

From June 1 to July 3, 19 people have been murdered in Colombia, who stood out as community leaders, peasants, and indigenous people. This has happened while the majority of Colombians live with intensity the transit of their football team in the 2018 World Cup Russia. Oblivious to this reality or refused to see it.

These deaths go under the table in the mainstream media. Or they are only reviewed as one more number, without showing the testimonies of what these people did in life that today lie before the ignominy of the State.

Only last week 10 social leaders were killed in different parts of the Colombian geography. Their names are: Héctor Santiago Anteliz, Saturday June 23, Teorama, Norte de Santander. 52 years. Janer Alberto Correa Arboleda, Saturday June 23, Teorama, Norte de Santander. 37 years. Isaac Navarro Mora, Saturday June 23, Teorama, Norte de Santander. Anderson Ortiz, Saturday, June 23, Belen Beach, Norte de Santander, 25 years old. Adrián Pérez, Saturday June 23, Curvaradó, Chocó. José Abraham García, Monday June 25, Ituango, Antioquia. Jaimer Albeito Idrobo, June 26 in Balboa, Cauca.Julio César Sucerquia, Wednesday June 27. Ituango, Antioquia and Iván Lázaro, Saturday June 30. Puerto Libertador, Córdoba.

While the Colombia-England football match was taking place, and the country was paralyzed by the header of Yerri Mina who sent the game to elongate, I find that later it was defined in the penalty shootout, the communal leader Felicinda was killed in the Department of Chocó Santamaría in the Virgen del Carmen neighborhood.

The ex-senator and defender of human rights, Piedad Córdoba, published an article on Wednesday, July 4, entitled: "No, this death is not normal," in which she describes what has been happening in recent years in the brother country, where already counted from 2016 to date 300 social leaders massacred.

"The systematic murders did not start with the World Cup, they have been presented for years, we always have to give them periods, georeferencing them with some event, but paradoxically the antecedent of this somber month is the signing of the" Peace Agreement "agreed by the guerrillas oldest in the continent and the Santos Government. Since 2016, we have not stopped counting the dead on a daily basis, to warn the national government and its institutions in thousands of ways that if there was no will to prevent more deaths of social leaders, this scourge would be worsened and to this day (July 4) ) are more than 300 those killed, "he wrote -more than with anger- with sadness for these silenced deaths since very few seem to care.

The senator continues in her letter saying: "In reviewing in detail the daily coverage of the media about the selective killings unworthy and sad the few minutes and the ways in which journalists broadcast the news, they do not see in any grimace the rage and the impotence that they expressed when they spoke of the dictatorship in Venezuela, does not alert that mass of automatons that listen to them, that believe everything, that this country kills its peasants, its young people and women, that those who peacefully defend themselves are being murdered their lands and their rights or what is worse, that in Colombia, those who participated in electoral campaigns different from those of the winning candidate are threatened and killed. "

Cordoba claims that his claim is not football, but is against the national government (who goes and who arrives), in addition to the media, who are silent and with their silence allow the "normalization of death, return of war, hatred of those who think differently, of women, of young people, of gays, etc. The story that these media tell us every day is never ours, that unique story submits us to the past and opens again the chapter of the Colombia vs Colombia internal conflict. "