Colombia to exhume Medellin graves: Official
Colombia to exhume Medellin graves: Official
By AFP 2 hours ago.
Colombian authorities will this month begin the grisly task of carrying out what could be the largest exhumation of unmarked graves in the conflict-torn country's history, local media reported Sunday.
Caterina Heyck, who is overseeing the operation for national prosecutors, told El Tiempo newspaper that the exhumation would begin July 27 in the Commune 13 neighborhood of Medellin.
Investigators believe this area in Colombia's second city has a large number of corpses of people killed in the country's decades-long conflict.
Heyck said the process would be "complex" because investigators would need to match any eventual DNA samples to those given by relatives of missing people.
The South American nation is still in the grips of a half-century civil war that has drawn in left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and drug gangs at various times, killing more than 220,000 people and uprooting as many as six million.
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