Bahía Portete massacre

Bahía Portete massacre

Infobox terrorist attack
title = Bahía Portete massacre


caption =
location = Bahía Portete (municipality of Uribia), La Guajira Colombia
target = Wayuu family
date = April 16, 2004
time =
timezone =
type = shooting, mass murder,
fatalities = 12
injuries =
perps = Wayuu Counter-Insurgency Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
weapons = small arms

The Bahía Portete massacre ( _es. Masacre de Bahia Portete) was a in the Colombian town of Bahía Portete (municipality of Uribia), in the Department of La Guajira on April 16, 2004. It was perpetrated by paramilitary groups of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Wayuu Counter-Insurgency Bloc led by alias "Jorge 40" killing 12 people and the disappearance of one. Some 600 people were displaced against their will and took refuge in neighboring Venezuela. [ [http://www.onic.org.co/actualidad.shtml?x=2174 es icon ONIC: Bahia Portete Massacre] ]

Jorge 40's men, alias "Pablo" and "Chema Bola" shot the indigenous group in Bahia Portete after receiving reports that these were "kidnapping and robbing" in the region. Five member of the Fince-Epinayú family were assassinated, accused of kidnapping a Lebanese immigrant. [ [http://www.onic.org.co/actualidad.shtml?x=2174 es icon ONIC: Bahia Portete Massacre] ]

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported in 2004 that the motives were rivalries, aroused between paramilitary factions between "Jorge 40" and another paramilitary commander known as "Chema Balas" for the control of the port of Bahía Portete. Calculated the death of 30 members of the Wayuu executed, 60 disappeared and some 250 forcedly displaced into Venezuela. [ [http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/05/25/solidaridad/1085476285.html es icon elmundo.es: ACNUR denuncia que cientos de indígenas colombianos se ven desplazados por los paramilitares] ] Paramilitaries pertaining to the AUC demobilized in 2006, but new drug trafficking organizations arose, such as the "Aguilas Negras". Between 2000 and 2005 the FARC and the AUC perpetrated two massacres each while the ELN perpetrated one in the Department of La Guajira. [ [http://www.derechoshumanos.gov.co/observatorio/departamentos/2007/guajira.pdf es icon Government of Colombia - Human Rights office: Department of La Guajira diagnostic] ]

ee also

*List of massacres in Colombia

References

External links

*es icon [http://www.fac.mil.co/index.php?idcategoria=24073&facmil_2007=17eb953004a495a35bf207a70d... Colombian Air Force: ‘Jorge 40’ admitted 5 massacres]


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