UN investigates Colombian massacre

The United Nations is conducting an investigation into the massacre in Colombia last week at Bojaya, in the western province of Choco.

The UN, which is sending an envoy to the remote jungle area, has already categorised the attack as a war crime.

A hundred-and-nineteen people were killed when rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) bombed a church where civilians had taken shelter from fighting.

Right-wing paramilitaries are alleged to have been using the civilians as human shields.

A source within the UN investigating team has already said that the Colombian Government will be severely criticised for ignoring repeated warnings that the community was in the gravest danger.

The UN team was invited by the Colombian president, Andres Pastrana.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service