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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 02:49 PM Sep 2019

Medellin could be Latin America's largest mass grave, Colombia's war crimes tribunal finds out

Source: Colombia Reports

Medellin could be Latin America’s largest mass grave, Colombia’s war crimes tribunal finds out
by Adriaan Alsema September 9, 2019

Recent findings of Colombia’s war crimes tribunal indicate that Medellin has been trying to hide the fact it is Latin America’s largest mass grave and may have been falsifying homicide rates for propaganda purposes.

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) last week ordered to inspect two quarries where, according to a local court, more than 300 people are buried.

The city’s authorities reluctantly told the court it had buried at least 900 homicide victims at the municipal cemetery between 2002 and 2012 without efforts to identify the victims.

Because the city’s administration admitted to only have “precarious information” on how many unidentified bodies were really dumped in the municipal cemetery, the court ordered to “conduct interviews with the authorities in charge of the administration of the cemetery or with those in charge of keeping records of the entry, removal or movement of the bodies of buried persons.”



Read more: https://colombiareports.com/medellin-could-be-latin-americas-largest-mass-grave-colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-finds-out/

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Medellin could be Latin America's largest mass grave, Colombia's war crimes tribunal finds out (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2019 OP
Sad. Medellin was a peaceful and beautiful city when I stayed there for a time in 1969. Nitram Sep 2019 #1
Actually it has gotten a lot safer recently. EX500rider Sep 2019 #2
Glad to hear it. I graduated from high school in Bogota, and it has been very painful Nitram Sep 2019 #3

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
1. Sad. Medellin was a peaceful and beautiful city when I stayed there for a time in 1969.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:35 PM
Sep 2019

Things were fine when high quality marijuana was the main illegal drug being sold. Cocaine changed everything.

EX500rider

(10,517 posts)
2. Actually it has gotten a lot safer recently.
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 12:15 PM
Sep 2019

Jamaica & the Bahamas have a higher homicide rate then Colombia these days.
I love going there on vacation, only $300 from Fla.

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Nitram

(22,663 posts)
3. Glad to hear it. I graduated from high school in Bogota, and it has been very painful
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 05:42 PM
Sep 2019

to see what has happened in Colombia since I lived there.

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