>From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Staff and agencies >Saturday December 2, 2000 >The Guardian >A rightwing death squad in Colombia killed at least 36 >people in the worst massacre of civilians in three >years, the authorities said yesterday. >Nine days after the raid on the fishing town of Nueva >Venecia, on the Caribbean coast, the death toll was >still uncertain and one report indicated that as many >as 86 people may have been killed. The bullet-riddled >bodies of the missing are still turning up in swamps >around the town. >Nueva Venecia is in the heart of a fishing and >banana-producing region where communist-led rebels and >ultra-right paramilitary groups have long battled for >control. >The bloodshed began at dawn on November 22 when gunmen >- suspected members of the United Self-Defence Forces >of Colombia (AUC), the leading paramilitary force - >began calling out the names of towns people on a "hit >list" of alleged collaborators of Marxist rebels >operating in the area. >Colombia's national human rights ombudsman, Eduardo >Cifuentes, who is expected to issue an official report >on the massacre before the weekend, said 2,000 people >had fled the town since the attack. >Guardian Unlimited � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000 > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. >http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
