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Call to help Colombia's displaced
Jul 15--Amnesty International has denounced what it says is a dramatic rise in the number of people being displaced by Colombia's armed conflict.
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The human rights group notes that 380,000 people were forced to flee in 2008, a rise of nearly 25% on 2007.
Communities in areas of economic, military or strategic importance are being targeted in particular, it says.
Amnesty says Colombia has one of the world's biggest displaced populations, put at between three and four million.
The latest report by Amnesty says that as many as 380,000 people were forced to leave their homes last year to escape violence arising from the long-running conflict between guerrillas, paramilitary groups and the armed forces.
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