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The massacre claimed the lives of four people in the Anori municipality. It is the tenth massacre to be registered in Antioquia so far this year.
In Colombia, the Sumapaz Foundation reported the murder of four people in a new massacre perpetrated in the Anori municipality in the Antioquia department on Saturday.
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Sumapaz informed that the victims' identities have not been revealed yet; however, one of them was a Peace Accord's signatory.
In Anori, there is a Territorial Space for Training and Reincorporation (ETCR) where ex-Colombian Revolutionary Army combatants (FARC) are prepared to reintegrate into civil life.
It is the tenth massacre to be registered in Antioquia so far this year.
Teri Mattson of @codepink shares a report from Pereira, Colombia where she has been with the @MisionIntCol to verify human rights violations & meet w/social movements.#Colombia #SOSColombiaDDHH pic.twitter.com/IXUAffHBpW
— Peoples Dispatch (@peoplesdispatch) May 30, 2021
Local authorities held that the crimes might be committed by the dissidents of the 36th Front of the FARC, who confused the victims with members of the Gulf Clan.
Colombia's Institute for Peace and Development Studies (Indepaz) has indicated that 258 people have died in the massacres perpetrated so far this year.
The departments with the highest rate of violence are Cauca (13 massacres and 43 dead), Antioquia (ten massacres and 36 killed), Valle del Cauca (nine massacres and 38 victims), and Nariño (seven massacres and 27 dead).
#Colombia | The systematic violence against social leaders and human rights defenders has taken the lives of 124 people in 2021, according to a report by INDEPAZ. pic.twitter.com/NBgRhpVJGa
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) September 22, 2021
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