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Colombia: Searching the Bodies of Murdered Indigenous

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 @ 19:52 UTC

by Julián Ortega Martínez

Countries:: Colombia
Topics:: Human Rights, Indigenous, Politics
Languages:: Spanish

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The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia publishes on its blog the route [es] the humanitarian minga is following since Monday in order to recover the corpses of the indigenous Awás murdered by FARC in February.

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[...] It was the ‘humanitarian minga‘, a mission the indigenous carried out in order to rescue the bodies of their fellows from Awá tribe, who were murdered in February by the Revolutionary Armed Forces [...]

# 2009-04-8 at 4:11 am
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[...] Si è trattato della “minga umanitaria”, una missione compiuta dagli indigeni per recuperare i corpi [in] dei loro compagni della tribù Awá assassinati a febbraio [in] dalle Forze Armate [...]

# 2009-04-13 at 5:40 am

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