A/HRC/10/32 page 32 2. Indigenous communities and peoples and Afro-Colombian groups 45. The Office received information on the murder of members of indigenous communities and peoples. On 22 May, three members of the Chingu Chinguza reservation in Ricaurte, Nariño, were killed. On 22 May, an indigenous former governor was found dead in the El Tigre River on the Sirilio indigenous reservation in the Litoral de San Juan, Chocó. On 14 October, an indigenous person taking part in a demonstration near the La María reservation in the village of Piendamó, Cauca, was shot and killed, allegedly by the police. 46. On 22 January, following clashes between FARC-EP and the army, FARC-EP allegedly made death threats against the members of the Siona Bajo Santa Helena indigenous assembly in Puerto Asís, Putumayo, accusing them of collaborating with the security forces. 47. On 18 June, members of FARC-EP allegedly fired explosives into a school in the Siona de Buenavista indigenous reservation in Puerto Asís, Putumayo. The attack caused such fear that it resulted in the mass displacement of the population. On 16 March, in the Tacueyo indigenous reservation in Toribio, Cauca, clashes between the security forces and FARC-EP caused the displacement of over 600 people. 48. The Office was also informed of killings of Afro-Colombian leaders, and threats against them; on 25 June, for example, a member of the Community Council of Bajo Mira and Frontera de Tumaco, Nariño, was murdered. Since February, FARC-EP have also allegedly been threatening the representative of the Corporación Afro-Colombianos del Pacífico (Pacific Afro-Colombian Corporation) to the Municipal Council of Guacarí, Valle del Cauca. An Afro-Colombian leader was also killed on 29 June in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca. -----

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