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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

PBI Colombia: Where are the disappeared?, March 2011 http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MINE-8EXQR4?OpenDocument

By the end of the 1980s this practice, in addition to being selective, became collective and indiscriminate: in addition to activists, members of social justice organisations and unions, individuals and entire groups began to be disappeared for the simple fact of living in a region of high social, political and armed conflict, or for travelling through such a region. A concrete case is that of the 19 businessmen that were disappeared in 1987 for the simple fact of travelling through the region of the Magdalena Medio.[7] Another is the case of the Pueblo Bello massacre in 1990, in which a paramilitary group took 48 men in two trucks with the acquiescence of State agents.[8] Much fear and panic was undoubtedly generated as a result of these two cases, given that none of those disappeared belonged to any activist group or social organisation: anybody could be a potential victim of forced disappearance.

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