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255 workers killed by land mines: Gov’t

255 “manual coca eradicators” have been killed by mines while performing their duties, reported the government on Tuesday. The official number of deaths while performing duties of destroying coca crops is currently...

Colombian military dismantles 5 ‘FARC’ camps

Armed forces said Monday they have killed one guerrilla and captured another while dismantling five rebel camps in an offensive against the FARC in central Colombia. According to an army press release, troops dismantled five...

Colombia should exhume victims of military killings: UN

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on executions advised Colombia’s government Monday to exhume the bodies of suspected victims of extrajudicial killings committed by the military to determine their identities. In...

FARC accuse US of role in ‘Mono Jojoy’ death

The FARC on Friday accused the United States of having a part in the September bombing attack on a FARC camp that killed commander “Mono Jojoy,” reports Anncol. The FARC-sympathetic news site reported that the...

Over 10,000 unidentified bodies found in Colombia

A survey to determine the number of unidentified corpses found by authorities in Colombia has returned a count of 10,084 so far, with more than half of the country’s municipalities yet to report their figures, reports El...

Child dies in army-guerrilla crossfire

A 5-year old boy has been killed in crossfire between guerrillas and the armed forces, the Colombian army said Sunday. According to a press release by the army, the incident took place on Saturday in the jungles of La Macarena,...

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