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    Activist deaths and postponed peacetalks highlight struggle over land in Colombia

    The Christian Science Monitor
    April 02, 2013

    At least two peasant leaders in Colombia have been murdered in the past several weeks, heightening concerns about the security of opposition figures and human rights defenders as the government and leftist rebels try to negotiate an end to the country’s nearly 50-year-old internal conflict. The head…


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