Colombia: 'This is a Last Hold-Out': Son of a Murdered Farmer in Colombia

Jul 21, 2018 | Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
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Hernán Bedoya was shot 15 times on 5 December while he was riding his horse to the vet in Pedeguita y Mancilla, Chocó. It was broad daylight when the two gunmen rode up by motorcycle and carried out the hit, but no witnesses dared to come forward. The death is among the most prominent in a wave of murders of land rights activists, environmental defenders, human rights campaigners, journalists and lawyers that followed the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and Farc (Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia) rebels.