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Article: Massacres in Latin America under-reported.
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Killings in Colombia
On April 24, 1996, Amnesty International reported that on April 22 in the towns of Segovia and Remedio in the department of Antioguia, 14 people were killed and 15 wounded in a massacre by members of a paramilitary group. Despite three Reuters North American wire service articles (April 22 and April 26), only the Orlando Sentinel carried a story on this massacre. Five days later when a lone gunman in Australia opened fire in a pub at a tourist site killing 32 people, it was front-page news in scores of U.S. papers.
Here is what happened in Colombia that U.S. papers found unworthy of coverage. On April 17, members of the police and the ...