DOCUMENTED POLITICAL KILLINGS IN COLOMBIA IN 1998
Individual assassinations....1,500
Social Cleansing...............1,000
Massacres........................1,332
TOTAL Political Murders..3,832
TOTAL NUMBER OF MASSACRES.....201
(Data submitted to CSN by the Permanent Committee for the Defense
of Human Rights in Colombia 3/99)
*Social Cleansing : the killing of beggars, prostitutes, street children,
and homosexuals, called "Limpieza Social"
** Massacres committed by paramilitares, guerrillas, Death Squads,
Army, Police and unknown groups
(These figures may not reflect the absolute total number of political
murders, i.e. the disappeared, where remains are unidentified or
unidentifiable, or where families are too scared to report the
disappearance of loved ones.)
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