Colombia Defence minister resigns; deep reshuffle in forces anticipated

Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 19:37 UTC

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Colombia's Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera resigned Wednesday amid growing criticism of the security forces and increasing attacks by the narco-terrorist rebel groups in the country. Last week it was also revealed that the number of ‘disappeared’ in Colombia is almost 62.000. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
Can anybody help?

62,000 disappeared.

Is the implication of this article that the police have killed 62,000 nationals?

Or were they killed be eg. the FARC?

Or is it the missing-persons--count from all quarters of a nation over the years of narco-political conflict?

Is there any way that an estimate can be made of the proportion/number of disappeareds that were innocent bystanders?
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