Mass Grave Discovered In
Colombia
BOGOTA - Colombian
authorities have found
amass grave of 32 people
believed to have been
killed by irregular
armed forces in
northwest Colombia.
The remains were
discovered in the
municipality of Ituango
in Antioquia Province,
the experts from the
National Unit of Justice
and Peace Prosecutor
told a press conference
on Tuesday.
Local residents said
that there were at least
other 14 mass graves
with remains of people
killed by the
paramilitary or
guerrilla in the region.
The government was told
of the graves after a
peace deal with the
United Self Defense of
Colombia (AUC), a
right-wing paramilitary
group which has been
blamed for many
massacres.
Under the peace deal,
the AUC members would
receive lighter prison
sentences if they
confessed their crimes,
which prompted many AUC
members to reveal the
existence of the mass
graves.
Many clandestine mass
graves with over 1,000
bodies have been
discovered after the AUC
was demobilized in 2006.
The bodies always bear
signs of torture,
mutilations and deadly
blow.
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