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Policarpa (Nariño) on 25 or 26 May, they murdered 11 peasants who were returning from
Remolinos after having taken part in a demonstration. Nine coca-leaf pickers were also
massacred in Olaya Herrera (Nariño) on 9 June.
42.
Among the murders of individuals attributed to members of the FARC-EP are those of
several shopkeepers in San Vicente del Caguán (Caquetá) in May and June, and those in Tibú
(Norte de Santander) on 29 March of two community leaders of the Presidential Programme for
Forest Wardens and their Families. They were also assumed to be responsible for the murder of
a schoolteacher who was shot in front of her pupils in Tuluá (Valle) on 23 January.
43.
The Office received several reports of cases in which members of the FARC-EP
murdered municipal public servants. They included the massacre of nine councillors from
Rivera (Huila) on 27 February, the murder of the mayor of Marulanda (Caldas) on 14 October,
the murder of a councillor at Sevilla (Valle) on 20 January and the murder of the president of the
council in Arauquita (Arauca) on 3 April. Members of the ELN are thought to be responsible for
the death of a councillor in Coromoro (Santander) on 3 April.
44.
The Office received reports of several murders of members of indigenous communities
attributed to the FARC-EP. Among them were the murder of the ex-governor of the Caño Claro
reserve of the Makaguan ethnic group, which occurred in Tame (Arauca) on 5 March, and that of
his wife, an ethno-educator, killed the following day, and a leader of the Wayúu ethnic group
killed in Riohacha (Guajira) on 12 May.
45.
Among individual murders attributed to members of the AC-ONG group was that of the
community leader of the village of Cartagena, Samaniego (Nariño), on 5 November, and that of
the leader of the teachers’ union in San Pablo (Nariño) on 10 July.
46.
The Office also received reports of murders of protected persons attributed to security
forces personnel, especially members of the army. In Argelia (Antioquia) on 15 February, a
17-year-old girl was murdered in an action attributed to members of the Fourth Brigade. In
Tumaco (Nariño) on 30 July, men from No. 3 Motorized Infantry Battalion “José María Cabal”
were said to have caused the death of a boy from the Awá ethnic group whom they had accused
of being a member of the FARC-EP guerrillas. In Puerto Asís (Putumayo) on 31 May, soldiers
from No. 11 Energy and Transport Plan Battalion were allegedly responsible for the deaths of a
man and a woman whom they accused of being guerrilla fighters. In Barbacoas (Nariño) on
16 August, the death of an Afro-Colombian leader of the community council was attributed to
members of No. 3 Mechanized Cavalry Group “José María Cabal”.
47.
In Ricaurte (Nariño) on 9 August, a group of men wearing military uniforms killed five
Awá Indians, two of them women, after having accused them of belonging to the “militia”.
48.
Members of the new AC-ONG group were accused of having made death threats against
social and union leaders. In the village of La Guayacana de Tumaco (Nariño) on 9 September,
paramilitaries threatened a leader of the Calarcá Pig-Breeders’ Association, causing him to move
and become a displaced person.
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