Through a report, the US NGO WOLA (Washington Office for Latin America) asked that it immediately communicate with Colombian authorities about the incident that occurred on March 28 in Puerto Leguizamo, Putumayo, in which 11 people died.
WOLA is a leading research and advocacy organization that promotes human rights in the Americas. They envision a future where public policies protect human rights and recognize human dignity, and where justice overcomes violence.
According to the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ), massacres and attacks against social leaders in Colombia between January 2022 and March 2022 occurred at a higher rate during the same time in 2021. So far, 48 social leaders have been killed, compared to 42 in 2021. In 2021, there were 23 massacres involving 94 victims. As for former FARC combatants, 14 were killed in 2021 and 11 in 2022.
In addition, the NGO adds “we strongly urge US politicians to demand that the office of the Colombian president and the Colombian ambassador, Juan Carlos Pinzón, immediately clarify this incident. An independent and transparent investigation involving the judicial authorities must determine exactly what happened, whether extrajudicial executions were committed and take appropriate measures to punish those responsible, if any.”
In addition, the report lists each of the murders in Colombia during 2022, they are divided into four categories: attacks on civil society, massacres, labor and Afro-Colombian rights, and armed conflict/illegal armed groups/femicides.
The departments where the attacks occurred are: Bolivar, Cauca, Nariño, Chocó, Santander, Valle del Cauca, Putumayo, San Andrés and Providencia, La Guajira, Antioquia and Magdalena Medio.
The commander of the National Army, General Eduardo Zapateiro, spoke in the last hours to defend the legitimacy and legality of the operation carried out by the institution on March 28 in El Remanso, in the municipality of Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, which left 11 dead in Putumayo.
Through a video shared on his official Twitter account, General Zapateiro assured that the operation was planned against a dangerous illegal armed group that, among other things, has caused forced displacement, assassinations in the region, among others.
“The residual organized group structure 48 against whom the military operation was directed, and which calls itself 'Border Command, 'is told, among others, to assassinate 13 people in the last two years in the rural area of the municipality of Puerto Leguizamo,” said the commander of the National Army.
Next, General Zapateiro added that the launch of the operation was also directly related to the 27 armed confrontations that, he said, have occurred between the 'Carolina Ramírez' fronts, under the command of 'Iván Mordisco', and other border commandos led by 'Iván Márquez', the which have caused great suffering to the population.
“So far in 2021 and 2022, they have caused confinements, displacement and mobility restrictions and, in the last five years, they have killed more than a hundred of their own members,” said the senior commander of the National Army.
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