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Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Husband of Colombian protest leader killed

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http://www.miamiher ald.com/news/ americas/ AP/story/ 815323.html

miamiherald. com

Husband of Colombian activist is fatally shot

Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia --

Soldiers at a roadblock in rural western Colombia have shot and killed the husband of an indigenous leader who had been organizing anti-government marches.

Authorities say Edwin Legarda was driving a Toyota SUV before dawn when the shooting occurred.

A spokesman for the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council said one of the other three people in the vehicle was lightly wounded.

The 34-year-old Legarda was married to Aida Quilcue, a top council leader.

Police say Legarda apparently didn't heed orders at the roadblock early Tuesday.

Tens of thousands of Indians from the region marched in October and November to demand justice for hundreds of killings blamed on illegal armed groups and to insist on the return of stolen lands.

http://www.miamiher ald.com/news/ americas/ AP/story/ 815323.html

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http://www.cnn. com/2008/ WORLD/americas/ 12/16/colombia. shooting/ index.html? section=cnn_ latest

cnn.com

Husband of Colombian protest leader killed

Story Highlights
Colombian soldiers kill Edwin Legarda at military checkpoint, army source says
Legarda was husband of Colombian Indian protest leader Aida Quilcue
Indians have marched to demand more land, better health care and education

BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Colombian soldiers on Tuesday killed the husband of a Colombian Indian protest leader, an army source said.

Edwin Legarda was at a military checkpoint in the country's sou thwestern region when soldiers shot and killed him, the source said. He was the husband of Aida Quilcue.

Legarda was killed when the military fired at his car some distance away from the checkpoint, a native Colombian Indian source said.

Legarda's death comes not long after tens of thousands of Indians marched from the mountains of southwest Colombia to Cali, a city of 2 million, to demand more land, better education, health care and protection from corporations encroaching on their ancestral land. Protesters and police have clashed as well.

Colombia's 1.3 million Indians rank among the most impoverished of the country's 40 million people.

CNN's Karl Penhaul contributed to this report.

© 2008 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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