Indigenous Activists’ Deaths Highlight Surging Colombia Conflict. Children sobbed and hugged each other as men took turns shoveling earth onto a coffin in the hilltop cemetery in this small village in southwestern Colombia. A somber atmosphere, spurred by the sound.
BOGOTA: A 14-year-old environmental activist has been shot dead in Colombia, indigenous groups and officials said, in the latest such attack in the world’s deadliest country for environmentalists. Breiner David Cucuname was one of two people killed while taking part in a rural security patrol Friday by an indigenous guard in the southwestern Cauca department plagued by