Colombia: Fear for Safety/Killings/Disappearances
Colombia: Fear for Safety/Killings/Disappearances
Index Number: AMR 23/025/2008Date Published: 8 July 2008
Categories: Colombia
Two men have been subjected to enforced disappearance and two others have been killed by paramilitaries in the municipality of Olaya Herrera in Nariño department, southwestern Colombia. Inhabitants from the area, mostly from Afro-descendant communities, are fleeing from their homes in fear for their lives because of an upsurge of paramilitary violence.