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Will Medellin energy company EPM ignore conflict victims and flood suspected mass graves?
by Adriaan Alsema April 23, 2018
Medellin energy company EPM insists on flooding a region in northwest Colombia where victims of the armed conflict say hundreds of their loved ones could be buried in mass graves.
The locals have received support from European lawmakers, but are opposed by EPM, local authorities and paramilitary death squads.
EPM wants to flood the area on July 1 to begin operating the Hidroituango hydroelectric dam located in the north of the Antioquia province and partly bankrolled by the Inter-American Development Bank.
In the 10-year process to build the damn, EPM and Antioquia authorities have systematically violated the rights of locals and conflict victims, the people from the region and international human rights organizations say.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/will-medellin-energy-company-epm-flood-mass-graves-in-spite-of-victims-protests/
