About 60 bodies found in mass grave in Colombia
About 60 bodies found in mass grave in Colombia
Associated Press
Published: 02.07.15, 22:29 / Israel News
Colombian investigators say they've found about 60 bodies in a mass grave in the southwest of the country and say the people were likely killed by right-wing paramilitary groups between 2000 and 2005.
Prosecutor-General Eduardo Montealegre estimates there could be 62 bodies in the grave near the town of Olaya Herrera. He says only 13 so far have been identified.
He said Friday they were apparently slain by paramilitaries. Such groups clashed with leftist guerrillas but also seized lands from farmers and trafficked drugs.
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Attorney located in the southwest of Colombia grave containing the remains of more than 60 people
Univision.com and Agencies | February 7, 2015 | 10:13 a.m.
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The prosecution believes that the remains are missing persons between 2000 and 2005 not only in the department of Nariño,
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The Colombian Prosecutor discovered in southwest China a mass grave containing remains of about 62 people, believed to be victims of paramilitary groups, reported the local media Saturday. The discovery was made in a rural area of the municipality of Olaya Herrera department of Nariño, which borders Ecuador, said Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre, who did not reveal when the discovery occurred, the agency Efe .
According to the prosecutor, "13 residues were identified," but added that according to information from an authority in the area "can be 62 people" the buried there. Montealegre added that exhumations are doing, work that involved the prosecution, the Government of Nariño, the Red Cross and the Institute of Legal Medicine. He said that working on the location of the remains, found in the region of Bocas de Satinga (Nariño), for several weeks in cooperation with the Government of Nariño, the Red Cross, and the Attorney Legal Medicine.
The right-wing paramilitary groups emerged to fight leftist guerrillas in Colombia, and are attributed hundreds of massacres and forced in Colombia, especially during its greatest expansion in the 1990s and early shifts the 2000s He added meanwhile the France Press Agency . The prosecution believes that the remains are missing persons between 2000 and 2005 not only in the department of Nariño, but in other regions of Colombia.
Efe stresses that more than 31,000 members of paramilitary or Unidas de Colombia (AUC) groups demobilized in mid-2006 in peace talks with the government of then President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010). Uribe's government promoted as a legal framework for the reintegration of the AUC-called Justice and Peace Law, enacted in 2005, which provides, inter alia, alternative sentences of between five and eight years in prison for those responsible for heinous crimes.
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