:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JG6TUO2GVFE5HCQDSOHVUNTXJA.jpg "There are 17 social leaders assassinated in the country after the homicides of two of them in Antioquia and Magdalena")
The extermination of social leaders in Colombia does not cease, where last Saturday, February 18 and Sunday, February 19, The homicides of Jorge Alejandro Chica in Carepa (Antioquia) and Milton Rocha Peña in San Sebastián (Magdalena) have been reported.
Two injured leaves an explosion inside the University of Antioquia in Medellín
The injured would be handling some devices that exploded inside the higher education institution, according to the first information on the event.
Chic’s Murderwas perpetrated with a knife while moving in the Villa Esperanza sector in the aforementioned Antioquia municipality, reported to the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz).
They added that this person was recognized in the community for his work as a leader and advocate for labor rights. Besidess, worked as a union leader of the Colombian Association of Bank Employees and employee of a financial institution in the municipality.
Alliance between the Farc and the ELN to fight the Clan del Golfo in Antioquia
The National Army is currently patrolling the area to ensure community safety.
at the station snail radio consulted the Sumapaz Foundation where they asked the authorities to speed up investigations to find those responsible for the crime.
“There aren’t many details, but we know he was murdered with a knife, we know he worked in a bank. The investigations that are carried out depend on the public prosecutor’s office, but we ask them to investigate,” Óscar Yesid Zapata, spokesman for the entity, told radio.
They denounce that Banacol, a company indicted for its links with the paramilitaries, wants to build on a property which is the subject of litigation
Paramilitary groups reportedly dispossessed a family of the property in 2001. Years later, the Banacol company claimed ownership, and now, despite the land being in dispute, the company wants to build a road for private use at the inside.
Meanwhile, in Indepaz they recalled that the Office of the Ombudsman issued Early Warning 008/20 with which it drew attention to selective killings and coercion on all forms of organization, Threats to social control are evident in social and coexistence dynamics.
While The Milton Rocha crime happened on Saturday evening on the road that connects the hamlet of San Valentín to San Sebastián, where the social leader was shot dead, reported in the governorate of Magdalena through a statement.
The organization explained that this crime occurs in a context where For more than five years, peasant families from the corregimiento (hamlet) of San Valentín, jurisdiction of San Sebastián, have been occupying lands under study and clarification of the legal situation.
“The community of San Valentín has suffered threats, intimidation and now the crime of Milton Rocha Peña, one of the main leaders in the process of recovering the lands on which they work”, they added.
For this reason he asked that criminal investigations be carried out to shed light on the murder of the leader of the community.
In Indepaz, they pointed out that Rocha had reported death threats since 2021: “At the time of the incident, Milton was at the home of political leader and journalist Nelson Armesto, coordinator of the Deep Colombia Node Network of the Colombia Humana movement (of which President Gustavo Petro is a member) in Magdalena”.
They also recalled that In 2021, the Ombudsman issued an early warning in this area of Magdalena for the operation of the paramilitary Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC).also known as Clan del Golfo and the main criminal gang in the country.
Before this crime, the murder of indigenous leader Marcos López Enríquez was reported last Saturday, February 11, when moving from the municipality of Mallama to Ipiales.
According to the authorities, López Enríquez was traveling to Ipiales to participate in the permanent regional consultation table of the indigenous peoples of Pasto and Quillasingas, when he was approached by a group of armed men on the sector said verbenawithin the jurisdiction of the municipality of Master.
Prior to this homicide, it was reported that Rubiel Antonio Zapata Valencia in Risaralda, whose lifeless body had multiple machete wounds was found inside the La Florida farmhouse, where he lived, located in the village of Llanogrande in the municipality of guaticaThe victims were identified as Jorge Alejandro Chica and Milton Rocha Peña (Risaralda) by one of their brothers, who arrived at the scene and found him in the kitchen with multiple wounds apparently caused by a machete.