Colombian activists killed

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2001

Five Indian rights leaders were killed on a reservation in Colombia on Sunday, violence blamed on right-wing paramilitary groups.

According to an eyewitness, Armando Valbuena, director of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, about 45 armed men stormed the reservation in western Colombia.

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