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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:19:13 -0600
From: Dennis Grammenos <dgrammen@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: COLOMBIA: Reports of More Massacres in Antioquia and Cesar
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The following is a report of more massacres in Colombia conducted by
paramilitaries. Please excuse any rough spots in the translation.
Solidarity,
Dennis Grammenos
Urbana, Illinois
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RCN -- RADIO CADENA NACIONAL -- COLOMBIA
Wednesday, 25 February 1998
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http://www.rcn.com.co/general.htm#001
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Paramilitaries assassinate 14 people in Antioquia and Cesar
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At least 14 people were assassinated by paramilitaries who invaded
three localities of the departments of Antioquia and Cesar, police
sources reported.
Six of the victims were assassinated by the United Self-defense of
Colombia (AUC) in the municipality of La Ceja, in the department of
Antioquia, while other eight suffered a similar fate in two settlements in
Cesar.
At dawn yesterday, a group of heavily armed and hooded men appeared in
the location La Loma, jurisdiction of La Ceja. They proceded to
remove several inhabitants --whose names were on a list-- from their
houses, and after they had tied the victims to posts, they shot them
dead.
The authorities learned of the fact because farmers from La Loma, who had
fled from the paramilitaries, trekked to the hamlet of La Ceja, where made
the denunciation and requested protection.
The farmers gave accounts of six victims who had been killed, the
majority women, but they indicated that they could more because the
shootings continued even after they had fled from that location.
In the other incidents, in the municipality of Gamarra in the department
of Caesar, the Self-defense Farmers of Cordova and Uraba (ACCU)
assassinated a woman whom, as in the previous case, they had forcefully
removed from her house; following the same procedure, they killed another
other seven people in the settlement of Codazzi.
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