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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 05:25 PM Jan 2013

Indigenous leader assassinated at family New Year party .

Indigenous leader assassinated at family New Year party .
Wednesday, 02 January 2013 08:05 Jacob Stringer

An indigenous leader has been murdered during a party at his home in central Colombia shortly after midnight on January 1, a local indigenous organization said Tuesday.

Reinaldo Domico was killed as he changed the music on the stereo at a New Years party he was giving for family and friends. According to his wife the assassin entered the house at the back, went straight up to Domico and shot him four times in the head, neck and back.

The assassin, who is described as "non-indigenous" and dressed in a hood and black clothes, escaped on a motorbike, according to the communique from the Indigenous Organization of Antioquia (OIA).

Reinaldo Domico was a leader of Embera indigenous communities in the area of Dabeiba and had also acted as advisor to other indigenous groups around Colombia.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/27558-indigenous-leader-assassinated-at-family-new-year-party.html

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(I just realized the name "Gaitanistas" probably refers to the assassinated leftist Presidential candidate, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, who was murdered in public after a speech as he was getting ready to leave on a train with his family. Here's his Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n_Ayala )

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