Colombia: ‘Businessmen in Northwest Colombia Plan to Kill Social Leaders to Prevent Land Restitution’

Jul 12, 2018 | Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports
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Businessmen in northwest Colombia are conspiring with death squads to assassinate social leaders to prevent the restitution of land that was stolen during the armed conflict, according to several organizations. IPC, Forjando Futuros and the Association of Land and Peace Claimants (ARTP), three renowned NGOs, said at a press conference on Wednesday that three businessmen from the Uraba region would be plotting to murder their directors in an attempt to prevent the restitution of stolen land.