Eyber Danilo Poto Pazú, son of Vice Minister Nelson Lemus, had been kidnapped on June 22 by the Dagoberto Ramos front of the dissidents led by alias Iván Mordisco.
The Cauca Regional Indigenous Council informed the public through its networks about the murder of Eyber Danilo Poto Pazú, stepson of the Vice Minister of Ethnic Peoples, Nelson Lemus. The incident allegedly occurred last Thursday, June 27, and those responsible are men from the Dagoberto Ramos front, belonging to the FARC dissidents.
Eyber had been kidnapped on June 22 by men under the command of alias Pájaro in the village of El Tierrero, in the municipality of Caloto, department of Cauca.
The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN) had already expressed their rejection of this event through a statement, since Eyber was a member of the indigenous reservation of San Francisco. “The kidnapping of Eyber Danilo is part of the actions of groups such as the Dagoberto Ramos Front that, through force, abuse and violent submission, want to become authorities in foreign territories,” the indigenous community expressed in the document when they learned of the kidnapping of this man.
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Several members of the National Government have rejected the incident, including the ICT Minister, Mauricio Lizcano. “I urge the authorities to take measures, strong and agile actions that lead to the capture of those who perpetrated this reprehensible act in Cauca,” was the tweet published in solidarity with Lemus.
“These criminals want to plunge us into a miserable war to continue committing crimes against the withering of the Nation. These acts are far from a true vocation for peace. What do they get out of killing innocent people? What is the supposed fight for the people if they murder the same defenseless people with total inhumanity?” was what the director of the National Planning Department, Alexander López Maya, tweeted in his X account.
The ACIN, the same entity that had denounced the kidnapping of the councilor, reiterated that despite the complaints, the “warlords” continue to murder savagely in the area.
“We continue to be victims of the strategy of aggression implemented by armed groups against indigenous communities, who intimidate, kidnap and murder our community members, just as happened in the territory of Miranda on February 24 when they murdered Florentino Mesa,” said ACIN, highlighting that this is not the first time that this type of incident has occurred.
With information from El Colombiano*
