Violence in Valle del Cauca Highlights Rise of Gang Massacres in Colombia

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Violence in Valle del Cauca Highlights Rise of Gang Massacres in Colombia

Violence in Valle del Cauca Highlights Rise of Gang Massacres in Colombia A spate of massacres in the southwestern Colombian department of Valle del Cauca illustrates how small urban gangs are increasingly employing a form of violence previously associated with the country’s major armed groups. Twenty-one massacres – defined as the simultaneous killing of three or more people – have been registered by human rights NGO, INDEPAZ, in Colombia so f…