Drug cartels kill people for breaking their COVID-19 rules in Colombia, group says
Armed groups with ties to drug cartels are enforcing their own COVID-19 lockdown orders in Colombia, and killing people who don't comply, a human rights organization says.
At least nine Colombians appear to have been killed since April for breaking measures intended to prevent spread of the coronavirus, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The organization also documented examples of the armed groups threatening and attacking people who break lockdowns, curfews and other rules, which at times are broader than the government's restrictions.