Bogota, March 3 (RHC)-- The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) of Colombia has denounced that the first sheriff of the Indigenous Council of the Corregimiento Libertad, located in the municipality of San Onofre in the Colombian department of Sucre, was murdered on Monday.

So far the details of the murder are unknown, although several users of social networks have echoed the complaint, even publishing images of the lifeless body.

Senator Gustavo Petro raised his voice to denounce the violent death of this indigenous social leader.  Petro referred to the "reparamilitarization" suffered by the department of Sucre, as well as to the "drug trafficking caste" that dominates San Onofre "without justice doing anything."

This is the 28th community leader to be assassinated in Colombia so far this year -- a period that has also reported 15 massacres and nine former FARC-EP combatants violently murdered.

The first 60 days of this year have constituted a continuity of the spiral of violence in Colombia, which had a high expression in 2020, when the FARC-EP was killed in the first 60 days of the year.