Dozens of young people killed in Colombia, perpetrators unknown
NEWS/LATIN AMERICA
More than 35 young people have been killed in 12 days, some of them tortured, as families call for justice.
by Steven Grattan
3 hours ago
Alvaro Caicedo recalled finding his 15-year-old son's body on August 12, tortured and lying beside four other lifeless Afro-Colombian teenagers.
His son, Jose, was killed in the impoverished Llano Verde neighbourhood in the western Colombian city of Cali.
Caicedo found the teenagers' bodies.
"When the children didn't come home, I was the first parent to go out looking. We went to the police station, then we walked all around, to places we knew he usually went," Caicedo told Al Jazeera. "When I heard he was with a group of other children, I felt more relaxed. But, we found all of them, they'd been tortured, cruelly murdered, it was horrible."
This example is just one of a spate of killings that has swept through some of Colombia's rural regions during recent weeks which have targeted mostly young people and shocked communities.
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