1/ Today the @BBCNews has reported on a protest in Bogotá Colombia, where thousands of indigenous people have arrived to protest march over an increase in violence in their lands. The protesters accuse the government of ignoring a rise in murders of indigenous leaders
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2/Edwin Gregorio Dagua Ipia was gunned down in December 2018 in the Huellas indigenous reserve, where he was a governor. Dagua was the 25th indigenous leader to be killed in 2018; his death sent shockwaves through the community in the Cauca region of south-west Colombia
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3/ The UN Human Rights Office in Colombia has raised the alarm about the numbers of human-rights defenders and community leaders being killed in the country and lamented the assassination of this human-rights defender and leader of the Nasa Indians indigenous authority.
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4/Edwin Dagua is one of the profiles featured in our #AssassinationWitness campaign in which we commemorate the lives of those have been murdered for standing up against injustice and corruption⤵️ https://bit.ly/3kqc9wp 
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