Colombian teacher and union leader Steven Chalarca was killed yesterday by armed men in the Municipality of Yolombó, Antioquia. It brings the number of social leaders killed since the 2016 peace deal to a staggering 1516. 121 have been killed so far this year.
Chalarca was a teacher and union organizer at the Rural Education Institute (IER), and he was killed at the school where he was based. Like almost all such killings, those responsible have not been identified, but the two armed groups in that region are the 7th Division of the Colombian Military and the anti-communist drug cartel Gulf Clan (AGC).
Despite the 2016 peace deal between the FARC and the Colombian state, human rights abuses committed by the military and far-right paramilitary organizations have continued apace. It's for this reason and others that some dissident groups have continued the armed struggle as they see only side as having ever respected it.
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