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Colombia: UN calls for urgent action against alleged extrajudicial executions

Sept 29 -- The United Nations human rights office in Colombia has called on the authorities to take urgent measures to stop a wave of apparent extrajudicial executions after 25 bodies were found in the north of the country.

29 de septiembre de 2008

The dead, many of them young, have been identified as residents of southern Bogota, according to a news release issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

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