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Over 6,700 victims of Colombia’s conflict still unidentified

by Adriaan Alsema September 7, 2010

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The bodies of at least 6,782 deadly victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict are still unidentified, a judicial official told RCN Radio Tuesday.

According to Luis Gonzalez, head of the Justice and Peace unit of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the unidentified bodies belong to victims of guerrilla and paramilitary murders in the 1980s and 1990s.

The number is based on statements by the local authorities of a quarter of Colombian municipalities.

So far, the unit has only been able to identify 85 bodies and hopes for the assistance of the national government to collect DNA from families of people who have disappeared and compare them with the remains of unidentified victims.

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