Remains of 4,296 victims had been restored to their families in nine of Colombia's departments. Colombia's five-decade conflict drew in paramilitary groups and state forces in what became a many-sided war fuelled by drug trafficking. By AFPMore by this AuthorBOGOTA,Colombia has located and exhumed the bodies of 9,000 people killed by far-right paramilitary groups during the country's decades-long civil war, judicial officials said Wednesday. DISARMEDShe said the remains of 4,296 victims had been restored to their families in nine of Colombia's departments, with most of them from the northeastern region of Antioquia and Magdalena in the north. PEACEColombia's five-decade conflict drew in paramilitary groups and state forces in what became a many-sided war fuelled by drug trafficking, leaving about 260,000 people dead and seven million displaced.

Source: Daily Nation May 03, 2018 05:26 UTC