Eliecer Arias Arias is an indigenous man from the Kankuamo people in Colombia. He is a human rights defender and member of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE). His family was the victim of forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions committed by the Colombian military forces. Since then, he has been accompanying and advising families who have suffered the same crimes in Colombia. Eliecer has been the victim of threats because of his activism, which led him to live displaced in the capital of the country.
