My partner’s murder: I’ll never stop demanding the truth

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In 1999 Terence Freitas travelled to Colombia to work on education projects with the indigenous U’wa people. It was dangerous, there was a civil war, and the government was at loggerheads with the U’wa community over their objection to oil exploration on their traditional lands. Along with two Native American colleagues, Terence was executed by guerrillas. The intellectual authors were never brought to justice. Abby Reyes was devastated, she has campaigned ever since for the crime to be properly investigated. Even as she tried to move on and start a family, unanswered questions about the killing haunted her. Twenty years later, she got an email from the Colombian government that blew her world apart. As part of the peace process following the formal end of the civil war, the man who had ordered the killing was to give evidence at an inquiry to which Abby was invited. Abby has written a book about the aftermath of Terence's murder called Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice. Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Julian Siddle Get in touch: [email protected] or WhatsApp +44 330 678 2707 (Photo: Abby Reyes. Credit: Jamie Grenough)