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Jun 28, 2024 – 9:27 pm
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Eivar Danilo Poto, son of the Vice Minister of Ethnic Peoples of Colombia, Nelson Lemus, was murdered this Friday in the department of Cauca (southwest)hit by an increase in violence, confirmed the indigenous organization Minga Association and several government institutions.
“With sadness we denounce the murder of Nelson Lemus’s son: companion, historical leader of Cauca and today vice minister of Ethnic Peoples in the Ministry of Equality. This crime committed by the Central General Staff (Emc), the main dissident group of the FARC, shows its lack of commitment to peace. Our solidarity with the Nasa people,” reported Asociación Minga en X.
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The National Planning Department also regretted the murder of Poto: “Life is sacred and the path to peace cannot continue to be muddied with blood.”. We categorically reject all types of violence in Colombia. We support the family in these difficult times,” he said on his X account.
Also The Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, Mauricio Lizcano, showed “outright rejection” regarding the murder and urged a prompt investigation to clarify the crime.
“For indigenous people, life is sacred. May the memory of Eivar Danilo Poto inspire the fight for a country of dignity, rights and harmony,” said the director of the Land Restitution Unit. (URT), Giovanni Yule.
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Other political actors such as the Polo Democrático Alternativo party also added to this rejection, which stated in its X account that “Those who insist on war and do not show a real desire for peace should know that all of Colombia rejects them.”
Congressmen and indigenous leaders have joined in the repudiation of this murder in messages published on social networks.
Although The authorities have not yet confirmed who was responsible for the murder, nor has anyone claimed responsibility for it. The wave of violence that has shaken southwestern Colombia has been carried out by the Emcnow split in two.
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Until March, the Emc, commanded by ‘Iván Mordisco’, was negotiating peace, but now its division into two has led to a breakdown in dialogue by the guerrilla factions of the southwest, which maintain a bloody struggle with the Colombian Government.
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