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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 04/03/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4172">James Bargent</a></span></div><p>When the paramilitaries of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) arrived in San Onofre in northern Colombia in the late 1990s, they came after dark, dragging people from their homes and disappearing into the night. </p>
<p>Soon, they did not need the cover of darkness. People were executed in public plazas in broad daylight. Women and young girls were openly raped and abused. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50249" target="_blank">read more</a></p>