Colombia: Fear for safety / extrajudicial execution

Index Number: AMR 23/052/1999
Date Published: 28 July 1999
Categories: Americas, Colombia

Cenen Carrascal, Eduardo Madarriaga, Faner Gutíerrez, Humberto Gil, José Gregorio Alvarez, Alberto Ríos Arevaldo, Numis Esther Camacho Sangregorio (f).There is grave concern for the safety of the inhabitants of Curumaní, Cesar department, after paramilitaries killed the above seven people on 25 July 1999. Those present were warned that this was the start of a terror campaign. Community leaders and public officials, notably the leader of the municipal authority, Gustavo Camacho Sangregorio, have been receiving telephone death threats.