AI has learned of the killing of Marco Tullio Farigua by unidentified individuals on 4 December 1993 in Ciudad Bolivar, a satellite of Bogota, on 4 December 1993. He was president of a local community action collective and had been involved in organizing a local civic strike on 11 October 1993. The strike was suppressed by the military, on the orders of the mayor of Bogota. Local community leaders have received death threats before and since the strike of 11 October.
