Authorities confirm discovery of Meta mass grave

[Judi Lynn]

Authorities confirm discovery of Meta mass grave
Friday, 17 December 2010 15:31 Cameron Sumpter

Authorities confirm that a mass grave containing 66 bodies, including 25 children, has been found in the municipality of Granada in Colombia's central Meta department, according to Colombian NGO the Collectivo de Abogados.

The Justice and Peace Unit of the Prosecutor General's office inspected the site at the request of congressman Ivan Cepeda, who raised the issue during debates in the House and Senate in August.

Cepeda witnessed the exhumation of the bodies and said he was concerned to see that a high number of the corpses were children, and that many seemed to have died from a bombing attack.

The people were allegedly killed in retaliatory raids by the army following guerrilla attacks in the municipalities of Puerto Rico and Puerto Lleras in July 1999.

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