Weekly Report - 11 April 2006

COLOMBIA: Paramilitary in redistributed land scam

Andean 11 April 2006 Modified: 11 April 2006 329 views

Concern about demobilised paramilitaries gaining a position of power at the state's expense have been heightened by a scam uncovered at the Instituto de Desarrollo Rural (Incoder), the land institute currently engaged in redistributing lands seized from drug traffickers among people displaced by the conflict. Some were found to be making their way into a cartel of land invaders led by a former paramilitary leader.

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