Leftist Rebels Suspected in Slaying of 8 Peasants
From Times Wire Reports
Suspected leftist rebels gunned down eight peasants in a mountain village in northwestern Colombia, apparently because the villagers refused to pay a “tax” on coca leaf used to make cocaine, officials said.
The suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the nation’s largest leftist rebel group, forced the men from their homes and killed them in the tiny Andean village of Puerto Venus in Antioquia province, about 110 miles northwest of the capital, Bogota, army and police officials said.
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