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0 0 1 minute read Bogotá: An organization representing the community said at least 31 indigenous people were injured in southeastern Colombia on Thursday (April 22) after cocaine’s main ingredient, cocaine, was fired upon by an illegal armed group. . The attack took place in the rural municipality of Caledno Colombia`Kaka Province. The region is strategically important for drug trafficking and is disputed by armed groups, including the democratic Farakka guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), and other criminal organizations made up of former right-wing paramilitary forces. “So far 31 indigenous people have been injured and five attackers have been detained by the indigenous guard,” the Regional Council of Indigenous People in Cauca (CRIC) said in a statement. ....
Since demobilising in 2017, former rebel fighter Manuel Antonio Gonzalez has faced numerous death threats and lost his son in a bloody murder. Part of the now-defunct Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, who signed a peace deal with the government of Juan Manuel Santos in 2016, Gonzalez, 54, lives in worry, not only for his own life but for the thousands of other former fighters who signed up to the agreement alongside him. The FARC, who have been accused of serious war crimes, handed more than 7,000 weapons to a UN peace mission in 2017, ending a five-decade-long conflict that left 260,000 dead. ....