More than 30,000 may be missing in Colombia

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Forced disappearances have jumped into the headlines of the Colombian press in recent months, writes BBC Mundo’s Hernando Salazar.

In 2000, the attorney general’s office said that there were 3,500 cases of people who had been ‘disappeared.’ Now, the office is investigating more than 15,600 disappearances in the country.

Nongovernmental groups in the country put the figure of the disappeared much higher -- they say that as many as 30,000 are missing.

Read the report, in Spanish, here...

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