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May 20, 2010

Activist for Displaced Slain in Colombia
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In Colombia, a leading activist for Colombians displaced by paramilitary
groups has been killed in a targeted attack. Rogelio Martinez was shot
dead near his home in Sucre province on Tuesday. The fifty-one-year-old
Martinez was in the midst of a dispute with a paramilitary group over a
large farm inhabited by over fifty families. It was at least the
thirty-fourth killing of a displaced leader in Colombia since 2002.



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