“Colombia:  Three indigenous people killed, others at risk” - April 21, 2015

Members of the Indigenous community of Cerro Tijeras in northern Cauca Department, south-western Colombia, have been killed and others possibly forcibly disappeared. Further death threats against Indigenous Peoples in the area have also been reported.  The whereabouts of Berney Trochez and Wilson Trochez have been unknown since 14 April when they were last seen in…Robles, part of the Cerro Tijeras Nasa Indigenous Reservation (Cerro Tijeras Resguardo) in Suárez… There is concern that they may have been forcibly disappeared. On 15 April unidentified gunmen forced their way into a house in the Agua Bonita area and abducted Mario Germán Valencia Vallejo, Belisario Trochez Ordóñez and Cristián David Trochez and forced them into a lorry. The bodies of the three men were found in the Guadalito area of the Cerro Tijeras Resguardo later that same day. The men had been shot in the head. All five men were members of the same family.  The killings of Mario Germán Valencia Vallejo, Belisario Trochez Ordóñez and Cristián David Trochez and the possible forcible disappearances of Berney and Wilson Trochez follow repeated paramilitary death threats in recent years and months against the community of Cerro Tijeras, which has been resisting the arrival of international mining and other economic interests on the lands they claim as theirs…