UNHCHR: 446 unidentified bodies buried in Meta graveyard .

[Bacchus39]

The Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) confirmed Tuesday in Bogota that a graveyard located in La Macarena, in Colombia's south-east Meta department contains at least 446 unidentified bodies that were reported as guerrillas killed in combat with the armed forces.

The UNHCHR undertook an analysis of the La Macarena graveyard, following concerns from human rights organizations that the cemetery may have been used as a mass grave to house up to 2,000 bodies, among them alleged victims of extrajudicial killings.

While the international body did not find explicit indications of a mass grave, UNHCHR director Christian Salazar said that he was "extremely concerned about the large number of people buried in the cemetery, whose identities and causes of death have not been clarified" and who "were reported as killed in combat with the armed forces since 2002."

Salazar stressed the need "to find out if the people buried in the cemetery were victims of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, or other human rights violations."

The director said that while the UNHCHR had not found indications of either a mass grave or secret burials, he did not rule out the possibility that "new information could be received that would serve to define, enrich or adjust" the contents of the report

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/11717-unhcr-446-unidentified-bodies-buried-in-meta-graveyard.html

[naaman fletcher]

1. Important update, thanks! nt

[Bacchus39]

2. yep, even one of the organizations that originally reported the 2000 backtracked

when evidence wasn't produced. Colombia has a lot of problems to deal with, no reason to exaggerate or spout disinformation. good to see their judicial system seems to be rather independent.

[naaman fletcher]

3. I seem to recall

An accusation that US and/or British military was behind this. I wonder if any evidence of that was found.