4 Awa indigenous people massacred
Four people, reportedly from the indigenous Awa group, were massacred Thursday night in Colombia’s south-western Nariño department, El Espectador reported Friday. The motive of the murder is not yet known. The…
Four people, reportedly from the indigenous Awa group, were massacred Thursday night in Colombia’s south-western Nariño department, El Espectador reported Friday. The motive of the murder is not yet known. The…
The governor of the indigenous community Resguardo Gran Mallama in the department of Nariño was rescued by members of her community after she was kidnapped on Monday. Ana Pastora Belacazar…
An explosives attack on a store in the south western Colombian city of Tumaco on Saturday killed two and injured 13, local authorities say. In an interview with RCN Radio,…
A topographer working for the United Nations, four policemen and three workers were injured on Wednesday when alleged FARC guerrillas attacked a group of coca eradicators, authorities said. The attack…
According to the Secretary General of the National Indigenous Organization in Colombia (ONIC), there have been more than 100 assassinations of indigenous people so far in 2010. Luis Fernando Arias…
The unknown assassins of a former council member and four of his family members also displaced 183 persons the following day, in the southwestern department of Nariño, the Ombudsman says.…
Unknown assassins killed a former council member and four of his family in a town in south-west Colombia, authorities confirmed on Saturday. The murders took place in the Pacific coastal…
A female minor planted the bomb that exploded Wednesday afternoon outside the office of intelligence agency DAS in the southern Colombian city of Pasto, Nariño, according to witness testimony, local…
Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS offers a $110,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a guerrilla leader suspected of ordering the Wednesday bomb attack on a DAS office in…