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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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