Luis Alberto Peña He was a peasant leader, trade unionist and militant of the historical pact. He was killed in the morning of this May 1 while traveling by motorcycle through one of the neighborhoods of Miranda (Cauca). His crime was known because President Gustavo Petro himself requested a minute of silence to pay tribute.
The human Rights Network of the Colombian Southwest rebuilt the chronology of the crime and responsible for the National government, the Government of Cauca and the military authorities For the attack that the illegal armed groups have had In that municipality that, as a consequence, has put at serious risk to social leaders.
Been: He was the militant of the human Colombia who was killed and for which Petro requested a minute of silence in the Plaza de Bolívar
According to the Net Mobilization day for the commemoration of International Labor Day.
“Subsequently, in the company of three people, they went to the neighborhoods to make peripheral and to summon the people, to accompany the mobilization day,” the Human Rights Network said.
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Around 9:30 in the morning the victim mobilized as a barbecue of a motorcycle in the Libertadores neighborhood – in a sector known as Mocha Street – When two armed men, unidentified, intercepted him and shot him several times.
“The human rights defender Luis Alberto Peña, product of the wounds caused by the impacts of a firearm, He lost his life at the scene. Who was driving the motorcycle left unfortunately done, ”added the Dd. HH ..
The authorities were alerted to this sicarial attack around 10:05 in the morning of this Sunday. The preliminary police report indicates that the man, in effect, was recognized in the town for carrying out peripheral activities. That he had a deadly impact on the head and that his body was transferred in a police patrol to the hospital.
President Gustavo Petro asked for a minute of silence in honor of the victim during his speech in the Plaza de Bolívar. He affirmed that the man was beaten for his activities that sought to promote the popular consultation of the Government.
But Mr. Peña’s leadership was much more complex. He was a defender of human rights and peasant guard: work that has been the sad war objective of illegal armed groups.
Luis Alberto Peña was a member of the PROSOCIATION PRO Constitution of Peasant Reserve of the municipality of Miranda Caucaof the Popular Unity process of the Colombian Southwest and made political activism with the Patriotic Union.
The promoters of peasant reserves are usually subject to attacks by armed. Their work in the territories is aimed at controlling the inadequate expansion of the agricultural border, they promote rural development policies – such as the voluntary substitution of illicit crops – protect natural resources, regulate the occupation and use of vacant lands and fight so that these properties remain in the hands of scarce peasants.
The authorities, for now, advance in the investigation to establish the phones of the event and find those responsible for this homicide. They analyze the security cameras to rebuild the route used by the hitmen to escape.
The north of Cauca, particularly, is a dispute zone between the dissidents of the FARC and the ELN guerrillas. These armed groups, mainly dissidents, have been responsible for indiscriminate attack against social leaders. According to Indepaz, so far this year, 55 human rights defenders have been killed, 13 cases have been reported in Cauca.
