Colombia: fear for safety / possible extrajudicial execution: Carlos Garcia Mallorca Tapias, Juan Carlos Garcia Mallorca Tapias; killed: Gabriel Ribon, Julio del Castillo, Eliecer Avila, Luis Perez, Amantine Villareal

There is concern for the safety of community leaders, opposition political party sympathisers, student activists and members of the Garcia-Mallorca Villareal family, following a wave of apparent extrajudicial executions in the town of Guamal, department of Magdalena. The victims were reportedly named in a death list drawn up in 1992 by members of paramilitary forces which include powerful local cattle-ranchers.

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