Colombian Campesino Land Defender Assassinated
Colombian Campesino Land Defender Assassinated
Published 19 November 2016
Monroy Fierro had focused protest efforts on trying to protect the local environment and highlight the damage caused by oil projects.
Erley Monroy Fierro, director of Ascal-G, one of the most important campesino associations in the eastern amazonian region, was assassinated on Friday.
According to the Foundation for the Defense of Human Rights, Monroy Fierro died in the hospital after his body was discovered on the side of the road near his farm, riddled with bullets.
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In an earlier interview with Semanariovoz about his concerns about the drilling, Fierro said, “There are two really important things. The environmental damage is the first, but the other is the damage to the social fabric. We know that the oil companies never come with good things. For one thing, the paramilitaries come behind the oil companies. After that come the psychopaths, the thieves, the rapists, and our culture dies. And the army also does this, so we are afraid.”
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