Hundreds march in Colombia to demand justice for murdered social leaders

Online News Editor
February 20, 2024
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Bogota, Feb 20 (EFE).- Hundreds of people demonstrated on Tuesday in several cities across Colombia to demand justice for the social leaders and signatories of the 2016 peace agreement who have been killed in recent years in the country.

“Every death deserves to be mourned and every life deserves to be lived, we cannot remain silent,” Gloria Arias, spokesperson for the Defendamos la Paz movement, which organized the protests, said at the beginning of the event in Bogota.

In Bogota’s Plaza de Bolívar, hundreds of people carrying carnations searched for the name of their husband, father, son or brother in the boxes scattered on the floor with the names of the victims.

The participants walked down the aisles with a bouquet of flowers and placed one in each drawer they saw empty.

“We want to draw the attention of
society as a collective protest and mourning for the murdered social leaders and peace signatories,” Arias said.

Since the signing of the peace agreement between the government and the FARC rebel group on Nov. 24, 2016, at least 1,608 social leaders and 420 signatories of the pact have been killed in Colombia.

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