Refugees
Fear Paramilitaries
Colombians
seek escape route following alleged
death threats.
Terrified
that the violence and death threats they
fled from in their native country have
followed them here, a group of Colombian
refugees is resorting to desperate
measures to convince Costa Rican
authorities that paramilitary and
guerrilla groups have infiltrated Costa
Rica.
The Costa
Rican government and local rights groups
insist there is no evidence to support
the claims, but the refugees are adamant
that the threat is real, and say Costa
Rica has become a "powder
keg." >more
