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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 12:02 AM Aug 2012

Armed men assassinate indigenous in southwest Colombia .

Armed men assassinate indigenous in southwest Colombia .
Tuesday, 07 August 2012 07:20 Courtney Scott

Armed men on motorcycles have shot at indigenous people in southwest Colombia, killing one, the governor of the Cauca department said Tuesday.

One member of the Nasa tribe was killed and two were injured in a shooting Monday night in the Caloto municipality of Colombia's southwest Cauca department, Governor Temistocles Ortega told W Radio.

The assassination attempt followed threats made to the life of local indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia by neo-paramilitaries on Saturday.

Cauca's governor called on authorities to investigate the shooting.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/25435-armed-men-assassinate-indigenous-southwest-colombia.html

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