An indigenous leader from Costa Rica was killed on Monday night during a violent...
Activists light candles during a vigil for Yehry Rivera, an indigenous leader from Costa Rica who was killed on Monday night, in San Jose, Costa Rica February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate
Yehry Rivera, a leader of the Broran ethnic group, died of gunshot wounds in the Terraba region, a year after the murder of another indigenous leader in the neighboring Salitre territory, both in Puntarenas province, police said. Rivera was killed during a bid to expel landholders occupying part of the land granted by law to the indigenous population of various ethnic groups, authorities said.
National indigenous lobby MNICR and the National Front of Indigenous Peoples accused the government of failing to provide adequate security in the region, and criticized it for allowing their lands to be illegally occupied.
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