BOGOTA – Hundreds of innocent civilians have been slain by soldiers and falsely identified as guerrillas killed in combat as part of a “more or less” systematic practice by significant elements of Colombia’s military, a U.N. human rights investigator said Thursday. After a 10-day visit interviewing more than 100 witnesses and survivors, special envoy Philip Alston told reporters he found nothing to indicate that such extra-judicial killings were state policy or that President Alvaro Uribe and his defense ministers knew of them.Full Story
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