Colombia: Fear for Safety

Index Number: AMR 23/018/2008
Fecha de publicación: 20 junio 2008
Categorías: Colombia

Members of the armed forces have threatened inhabitants of the Naya River basin by telling them that paramilitary groups are returning to the area. The paramilitary groups have supposedly been demobilized in a government-sponsored process. The lives of the area’s Afro-descendant communities are in danger.