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Article: COLOMBIAN PEASANTS CAUGHT IN WAR'S CROSSFIRE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 21, 1999
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For Jose Moreno, his family of six and his neighbors, life as refugees began suddenly in mid-July with the arrival of a group of armed men at their small village north of here.
``We are going to do a cleanup in this area, so it is best you go away for a time if you don't want to get hurt,'' Moreno remembers the masked strangers announcing.
Since members of a right-wing paramilitary death squad killed 11 people in a nearby settlement just a few days earlier, the residents of the Morenos' village, La Pista, took the warning seriously.
Leaving their belongings behind, they fled across the border into Venezuela, beginning an odyssey that has brought ...