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Colombia fighting violent repression of anti-government protests
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May 1, 2021
Police massacred at least eight people in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, in response to protests against President Ivan Duque, human rights defenders said Friday.
In a press conference, Cali human rights organizations said they were able to confirm the assassination of eight people and were in the process of verifying another six police killings.
The people were allegedly murdered in the neighborhoods El Calipso and El Diamante, according to the human rights organizations.
Locals additionally uploaded evidence that police was indiscriminately opening fire on civilians in three other neighborhoods.
The reports of police terror all came from the impoverished southeast of the city.
Fears for health and environment over plans to reintroduce aerial fumigation
The majority of murders of social activists and FARC former guerrillas have been committed in zones where cultivation of illicit crops takes place. Additionally, at least 75 people working on the peace agreement’s voluntary substitution programmes were murdered between November 2016 and June 2020.
The Colombian government of Iván Duque has brought the reintroduction of aerial fumigation a step closer with a new decree to permit the practice, despite widespread opposition among social organisations, opposition parties and rural communities.
Spraying of chemicals from aeroplanes was previously used in Colombia to target plantations of illegal crops used in drugs production such as coca and marijuana. However, the Constitutional Court indefinitely suspended aerial spraying in 2015 over the harm it causes to public health and the environment. Prior to the ruling, the World Health Organization classifie
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