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Afro-Colombian Activist Assassinated

HeadlineJul 20, 2010

In other news from Latin America, an Afro-Colombian activist named Jair Murillo was assassinated on Saturday, a day before he was to take part in a march led by internally displaced groups in Colombia. The Washington Office on Latin America reports Murillo’s organization was one of several Afro-Colombian groups that recently received death threats from a paramilitary organization called the Black Eagles.

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