A report by Megan Janetsky and Anthony Faiola for The Washington Post. On a January morning in the foothills of the Andes, Gonzalo Cardona Molina gave his daughter a goodbye hug, jumped on his 2015 Yamaha motorcycle and set off for the habitat of the elusive yellow-eared parrot. Cardona had spent two decades nurturing the…
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Colombia human rights update January 2021
Forced displacement also occurred, with town councillors, journalists and indigenous activists continuing to be targeted.
The opening weeks of 2021 were the most violent start to a year since Colombia’s peace agreement was signed in 2016.
Having registered over 90 massacres and over 300 social activists killed in the previous twelve months, according to national human rights organisations, the first month of the new year saw at least sevent massacres, 17 killings of social activists and five FARC former combatants killed.
Forced displacement also occurred, with town councillors, journalists and indigenous activists continuing to be targeted.
Below is a summary of cases of violence in January 2021.
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A conservationist who saved 2 species a parrot and a rare palm tree was murdered by gangs in Colombia Haven Orecchio-Egresitz A Colombian conservationist who saved a species of parrot from extinction has been killed. Gonzalo Gonza Cardona Molina disappeared in early January. Days later he was reported dead. He was often threatened by the military and armed groups who opposed his work to protect the birds.
Gonzalo Cardona Molina, the conservationist know as Gonza, was killed by an unknown Colombian gang, the City Paper Bogota reported.
Molina, 55, was the coordinator of Reserva Loros Andinos at Fundación ProAves, where he had worked since it was founded in 1998, according to the foundation.