Tag: Disappearances
In 3 years of searching, Colombia exhumed 28,000 unidentified bodies
Three years after forensic prosecutors began looking for unidentified corpses buried in municipal...
Remains of 29 of Colombia ‘disappeared’ returned to families
The remains of 29 people who disappeared during the half-century conflict in Colombia were handed...
97000 disappeared in Colombia, 70000 still missing: Red Cross
Nearly 100,000 have disappeared and almost 70,000 continue to be missing in Colombia,...
Former state representative disappears in northeast Colombia
A former state reprentative has mysteriously disappeared in the northeast of Colombia, local...
Disappearances in Medellin increased 20% in 2013
The Medellin ombudsman report released Thursday revealed both a 20% increase in disappearances in...
‘Colombia’s most foul-mouthed woman’ gone missing after fight with boyfriend
Doña Gloria, a Medellin woman who gained national fame after a video of her cursing unrelentingly...
19,000 children missing in Colombia
Some 19,000 children are missing in Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. More than 4,000...
Disappearances on the rise in Cali
In the first two months of 2013 alone, 114 people disappeared from Colombia’s third largest city of Cali, representing a 8% increase in disappearances over the same period in 2012, reported the Cali Ombudsman’s...
Disappearances in Colombia shoot up: 7500 missing in 2012
More than 7,500 Colombians have disappeared in 2012, which is a 76% increase compared to the year before and the highest number in ten years, a report by the country’s coroner’s office revealed Monday. According to...
90% of reported disappearances in Bogota is ‘false alarm’: Police
Ninety percent of reported disappearances in Colombia’s capital has proven to be a false alarm, the local police said Thursday. According to the Bogota Police Department, of the last 1,007 reported disappearances some 900...
Over 2300 disappearances in Medellin since 2009: Report
More than 2,000 disappearances have been reported in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, in the past two years, said the local ombudsman Friday. A study, entitled “Human Rights in Medellin 2004-2011” and...
Breaking the silence on Colombia’s disappeared
The number of “disappeared” in Colombia may be far higher than the official figure of 51,000, according to a report from the Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWG) and the U.S. Office on Colombia. Victims...
