(CNN) — The warnings were impossible to ignore. For over a year, armed groups in northern Colombia had posted flyers touting violent campaigns against members of the LGBTQ community.

“All will be military targets. We will not respect ages. We have already made progress in intelligence work and many have been identified,” warned one flyer in the coastal region of Guajira, dated March 2024, that included a kill list of specific individuals. It warned of a broader attack to come against “sexual depravities in the region: homosexuals, lesbians, rapists, trans.”

These were not empty threats. Even amid the bloodshed of Colombia’s decades-long civil war, the repeated killings of queer folk stood out for their calculated brutality. This April, trans woman Sara Millerey became a household na

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