Almost 1000 of Colombia's human rights defenders and community leaders threatened with death
by Adriaan Alsema
Almost 1000 of Colombia’s human rights defenders and community leaders have received death threats, according to the country’s ombudsman.
At an event with social leaders in Cali, Ombudsman Carlos Negret said Wednesday that 983 social leaders have received personal threats and said it is “necessary to believe what the pamphlets say, they may not be ignored.â€
Since last year’s congressional elections in March, 481 human rights defenders were the victim of some kind of aggression, the vast majority through death threats. Twenty of them were assassinated and 13 survived assassination attempts.
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Pretty bad, I think we watch the Venezuelan situation knowing that if things got worse in Colombia, you could really see that region fall apart. I mean, Colombia seems to be in bad shape really but does not garner the attention as Venezuela does. Venezuela must be much worse off.
