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Afro-Colombians Face Genocidal Attacks from United States-Backed Death Squads

10-5-2017 < Attack the System 84 102 words
 
US imperialism is what those who are genuinely concerned about the mass killing of people with black and brown skin should be protesting, not Milo Yiannopolous and Ann Coulter. By D. Amari Jackson Atlanta Black Star On December 20, 1996, in the Colombian riverside village of Riosucio, the mass killings of Afro-Colombians began. At the time, though the country’s relentless civil war between the government and rebel groups had raged for decades, much of the violence had spared the rural, mineral-rich region of Choco where 85 percent of residents are Afro-Latino. That would brutally change More…
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