Saturday, September 26, 2009

Mass Grave found in Colombia

I recently found this article about a mass grave found in Colombia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090925/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_colombia_exhumations

Colombian officials had found 17 bodies in a ranch of a now deceased militia leader. The bodies had shown signs of torture and were dismembered. The article also mentions that they were likely killed due to drug-related conflicts of interests between some guerrilla groups. Over 2,500 bodies have been found in Colombia in such graves since 2005.

I thought that this would be a nice tie-in with one of the articles for next class about the drug situation in Latin America and just how far and deep this problem goes.

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