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![]() Monday, October 11, 1999 Published at 23:03 GMT 00:03 UK ![]() ![]() World: Americas ![]() Peasants killed in Colombia massacre ![]() Relatives mourn as police inspect the dead ![]() The bullet-riddled corpses of 13 peasants have been found with their hands tied behind their backs and dumped on a north-western Colombian road. Authorities said the massacre, which bore the hallmarks of an ultra-right paramilitary killing, was carried out by unidentified gunmen late on Sunday near the town of Heleconia in Antioquia province. It came a day after Marxist rebels killed 10 people in three incidents elsewhere in the troubled province.
"They were all tied up and had bullet wounds to the head." There was no immediate indication which group may have been responsible for the massacre. Colombia's civil conflict has claimed more than 35,000 lives in the last 10 years, with right-wing death squads and leftist guerrillas routinely targeting civilians they suspect are collaborating with their enemy. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels murdered five farm workers and slaughtered more than 170 cows in Antioquia on Saturday, an army spokesman said. According to the federal human rights ombudsman, 847 civilians were killed in massacres in the first half of 1999, a 44% increase over the same period last year. ![]() |
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