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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.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/medellin-could-be-latin-americas-largest-mass-grave-colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-finds-out/
LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142365292