Increase seen in illegal executions
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From Times Wire Reports
Colombian soldiers are executing an increasing number of peasants in rural areas and passing them off as leftist rebels killed in combat, a human rights study found.
There have been 955 documented cases of illegal executions by the army over the last five years, compared with 577 in the previous five, according to the International Observation Mission on Extrajudicial Executions and Impunity in Colombia.
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