Colombian Election Fury
BOGOTA (Colombia), Wed. (2 p.m.) —About 235 Colombians have been killed in the past 24 hours in the mounting wave of pre-election violence, said the newspaper El Liberal.
It added that about 150 were killed and 30 wounded in three towns in Valle Province when “Conservative bandits’’ attacked the region, burning down houses, stealing cattle and destroying crops. The Conservative newspaper El Siglo, however, blamed the Liberals for the fighting. It. claimed that about 2000 “Liberal bandits’’ were terrorising Valle and Gundinamarca provinces. The Liberal Party declared that it would not recognise the results of the Presidential election on November 27, adding that the mounting tide of violence had proved that a Conservative Government could not guarantee a free election.
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1949, Page 6
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