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Colombia: Activist Killed by FARC by Weekly News Update on the Americas On Mar. 23, the Campesino Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC) said it had determined that guerrillas from the 24th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were responsible for the Feb. 18 murder of community leader Guido Romero, vice president of the Communal Action Board in the rural community of La Victoria in Cantagallo municipality, Bolivar department. The ACVC had attributed the murder to rightwing paramilitaries in a Feb. 21 communique [see Update #840]. The mayor of Cantagallo and the regional newspaper Vanguardia Liberal, based in Bucaramanga, had maintained all along that the FARC's 24th Front was responsible. The ACVC said it "deplores and rejects this murder and demands that the FARC observe the principle of...not turning civilian residents into targets." Since the murder, several families have been displaced from La Victoria. [ACVC 3/23/06 via Servicio Prensa Rural] Weekly News Update on the Americas * Nicaragua Solidarity
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