Inside The Americas - The False-Positives Scandal

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In late 2007 young men began disappearing from the streets in Soach, Colombia, a poor district on the outskirts of Bogota, and their bodies turned up in mass graves a year later. Authorities claimed they were guerrilla fighters, but their families knew otherwise. The discovery of the bodies gave rise to what became known as the "false-positives scandal", civilians being killed and reported as guerrilla casualties. Their stories.

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