Amparo Leonor Jiménez Pallares

Year: 1998

Nationality: Colombia

Killed by: Paramilitary Group

Location: Valledupar, Colombia

Press organization: "QAP" and "En Vivo"

What's Amparo Leonor Jiménez Pallares's story?

Jiménez, a television reporter until just months before her murder, was dropping off her son at school when a gunman shot her three times in the head and then fled on a motorcycle driven by an accomplice. According to the Attorney General’s Office, she was killed by members of a paramilitary death squad in retaliation for a story she broadcast in 1996.

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