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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