CIIR reports on human rights abuse in Colombia

VIOLATION of human rights in Colombia has escalated to a "horrifying level of violence", spokesmen for the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) and Christian Aid said this week.
A CIIR/Christian Aid Human Rights delegation to Colombia found evidence last month of "a terrifying level of human rights violations".
The statement issued by the delegation describes "pools of blood in the streets. the coffins of children gunned down by unknown assassins and the mass graves of the IsINs' the no name graves of Colombia's thousands of anonymous dead."
Archbishop O'Brien, the Catholic Archbishop of Edinburgh and St Andrews, was a member of the inter-faith delegation and spoke of the horror and "stench" of the graveyard where the graves hold 3000 bodies.
Archbishop O'Brien said that the delegation had arrived in an area of Cuidad Bolivar, known as John Paul 11, because the people hope that the name may protect them from violence.
The day before the delegation arrived I I young people, standing in a shopping queue, had been gunned down by unknown assailants on motorcycles.
They were yet more victims to Ix added to the thousands that are killed each year.