Indigenous Colombians protest violence

Thousands of indigenous Colombians staged a symbolic trial of President Ivan Duque in the country’s capital on Monday to demand an end to growing violence on their land.

The demonstrators also want a say on major development projects, and for the full implementation of a 2016 peace plan that ended half a century of insurgency by the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

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