Rebels’ bodies found
NZPA-AFP Bogota Seventy-eight bodies have been found after an apparent purge by a Leftist guerrilla organisation, says the commander of the Colombian Army’s 3rd Brigade. The victims had been mostly bludgeoned to death or hanged. They were found in graves in the Andes mountains around the town of Tacueyo, in the southwestern province of Cauca. The dead were young men wearing the green uniform of the Ricardo Franco
Front, which rejected the truce signed by the main guerrilla movements last year. That front broke away from the communist Colombian Armed Revolutionary Forces, which still observes that truce. The nationalist April 19 movement (Ml 9 guerrillas) issued a statement that the Franco Front had given the "unacceptable excuse” that it killed its own men while seeking “possible infiltrators from the Army Intelligence service.”
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