In Spanish: http://blog-redlad.blogspot.com.co/2017/10/alerta-la-paz-en-colombia-debe-proteger.html

With the purpose of giving compliance to the fourth chapter of the Final Agreement for the termination of the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace, the peasants, mostly Afro and indigenous of Tumaco, a town in the department of Nariño, to the south of Colombia, held a peaceful protest in which after several days, on October 5, the Police made indiscriminate use of force. From a helicopter they fired on the community, leaving as nine peasants killed and more than eighteen wounded, among whom there were minors.

From the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD), we express our deep rejection of this massacre against the community of Tumaco; the rights to life, humane treatment and the peaceful assembly, enshrined in Articles 4, 5 and 15 of the American Convention on Human Rights and as well as in the Colombian Constitution itself, were violated by the Colombian State.

Therefore, we call for:

1. The entire international community, both governments and civil society in each country, reject this massacre that seriously affects the implementation of the Peace Accords.
2. An international humanitarian commission led by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) must formed to verify these regrettable events that took the lives of defenseless peasants, who were mobilized to achieve a stable and lasting peace in their territories.
3. That a process be opened before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights so that this case will not go unpunished, to determine the directly responsible and to repair the community victim of this massacre.

REDLAD is deeply committed to human rights and democratic principles in the hemisphere. Therefore, any help or show of solidarity with the implementation of the Peace Accords in Colombia is very important.