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Colombia activist murders reach record high of 199 this year

Colombia activist murders reach record high of 199 this year


Colombia activist murders reach record high of 199 this year
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In the first eleven months of the year, 199 people were murdered, higher than the total number of social leaders and rights defenders killed in 2021 and 2020, when 145 people and 182 people were killed respectively, the ombudsman said.

It also hopes to implement the 2016 peace agreement signed between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) with dissident factions of the now demobilized guerrilla group that reject the accord.

The government also wants to subdue criminal gangs linked to drug trafficking in exchange for benefits such as reduced prison sentences.

The numbers on community and human rights leader killings in Colombia vary widely depending on the source.

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