Six people have been killed in a remote Colombian town notorious as the site of one of the worst massacres of the country’s civil war, stoking fears that the brutal violence of the past has returned. President Iván Duque tweeted confirmation of the massacre that took place in Mapiripán, in Colombia’s eastern plains, on Monday night. The military and state-aligned paramilitary groups contributed to the bloodshed. It has opened up a trauma we thought we had put behind us,” said Mayerly Triana Hoyos, a survivor of the 1997 massacre. “There’s people with guns all over the countryside around here,” said another survivor, who was 13 at the time of the original massacre.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2018 16:18 UTC