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Mass graves containing 150 remains discovered in northwestern Colombia

by Christan Leonard June 13, 2012
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Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced Tuesday it has located mass graves belonging to the AUC, formerly the country’s largest paramilitary group, containing at least 150 remains.

A committee of the Justice and Peace Unit of the Attorney General’s Office discovered the graves in the municipalities of Unguia, Choco and Necocli, Antioquia with the assistance of demobilized AUC leaders Elmer Cardenas and Freddy Rendon Herrera, alias ‘El Aleman.’

According to Herrera, the victims were killed between 1995 and 1997 and various groups within the AUC were responsible including the House of Castaño, the Arlex Hurtado front, the Banana Bloc, the Elmer Cardenas Bloc and a group known as Los Guelengues.

The search for remains continues and officials believe there may be more graves near the site in Unguia.

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