>STOP NATO: °NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > >[Chalk up another human rights triumph for Billiy Boy.] > >AP > August 8, 2000 >At least 13 dead after massacres in Colombia >BOGOTA, Colombia: Right-wing paramilitary groups slaughtered at least 13 >civilians in two separate mass killings in northern Colombia, >authorities said Tuesday. >In the mountain hamlet of San Diego on Monday night, a group of men >wielding machine guns and wearing military fatigues began pulling >civilians they suspected of being guerrilla sympathizers from their >homes, police. >They shot and killed three woman and four men, said a spokesman for the >local police force in the northern province of Cesar, where the killings >took place. >Two other people abducted after the attack were still missing Tuesday >night, said the spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. >San Diego, located 640 km northeast of the capital, Bogota, was the >scene of a similar massacre last year, in which right-wing paramilitary >forces killed six. The mountain province of Cesar is a stronghold of >Colombia's largest guerrilla group and also three paramilitary groups >and has seen some of the most brutal territorial struggles of this >Andean nation's 36-year civil war. >Monday night's attack came a day after a group of 30 heavily armed >paramilitary soldiers hunting for leftist-guerrilla sympathizers killed >six men in the mountain village of Vilanueva, located about 650 km north >of the capital, said Col. Carlos Eduardo Davia, a local police >spokesman. >In the attack late Sunday, the soldiers herded the men into the street >and hacked them to pieces with machetes and hunting knives while their >family members begged for mercy and terrified neighbors ran for their >lives, Davis said. >Speaking Tuesday night via telephone from the northern province of >Bolivar, where Sunday's killing took place, Davia said the attackers >were believed to be members of the United Self-Defense Forces of >Colombia, this country's newest paramilitary faction. >Davia said the quiet mountain town was targeted because it was the site >almost a decade ago of a government-sponsored program that gave former >leftist guerillas tracts of land in exchange for disarming. >Police in Bogota said before a news conference Tuesday night that they >didn't believe the attacks were carried out by the same group because >the incidents happened more than a day's drive apart. (AP) > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
