{"id":88033,"date":"2020-08-17T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=88033"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:22:47","slug":"colombia-un-condemns-massacre-of-young-people-in-narino-leiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=88033","title":{"rendered":"Colombia: UN condemns massacre of young people in Nari\u00f1o, Leiva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/colombia-un-condemns-massacre-in-narino-that-killed-9-20200816-0009.html#\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/__export\/1597622928780\/sites\/telesur\/img\/2020\/08\/16\/3273bc19fca9ffb98af715b82dd5662249f28247w.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" alt=\"Family members of the victims' of Sunday's massacre say goodbye to their loved ones. Augusto 18, 2020. \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BOGOTA, Aug 17 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8212; The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia condemned the massacre in the Nari\u00f1o department where a group of armed men killed nine young people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OHCHR in Colombia also rejected the recent killing of two minors last Aug 10 in the border between Cauca and Nari\u00f1o Department when they were headed to their school to submit their homework.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe reject the massacre of 9 young people yesterday in Samaniego, in addition to the murder of 2 Afro-descendant children who were going to do a school assignment in a Leiva neighborhood 8 days ago. After the massacre and homicides of 2 children in Nari\u00f1o, we reiterate to the illegal groups their obligation to respect the life and integrity of all people,\u201d read a statement posted on the OHCHR\u2019s Twitter account.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, they reiterated the need for a proper investigation into the recent killings emphasizing the need to protect the lives of locals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor of Samaniego, Jhon Rojas, where Sunday\u2019s massacre took place, condemned the killing and stressed the need for authorities to take action against violence in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Colombia&#8217;s President Ivan Duque, the Defense Ministry, the Nari\u00f1o Police, and the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office have to take actions that will restore peace in the region,&#8221; Rojas said on his Twitter account. &#8220;The community is in terror. No more bloodshed in Nari\u00f1o,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the hashtag #QuienMatoALos9 or \u201cWho Killed the Nine\u201d various social media users raised their voices to demand justice for the killings in the South American country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pot-banging protest is set to take place this Sunday at 7 pm local time as a sign of protest and a call for urgent action to achieve peace in Colombia.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-TELESUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, Aug 17 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8212; The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia condemned the massacre in the Nari\u00f1o department where a group of armed men killed nine young people.\u00a0 The OHCHR in Colombia also rejected the recent killing of two minors last Aug 10 in the border between Cauca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":88034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}