Granada

Local Zones of Peace: General Survey and Map.
 
                                        Granada
                                                               
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Departamento: Antioquia
Region: Eastern Antioquia.
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Location: c 50 km east of Medellin
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Guerrillas: Strong presence of AUC since at least early 2000.                                              
                     
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Significant events: In Nov 2000, AUC paras killed 17 people in the urban center of Granada, bringing to more than 50 the number of people killed in Granada & El Santuario since that August. AUC operating unhindered by army presence and apparently using a death list of suspected guerrilla supporters in region. In late Oct. 2000 several members of ADIDA, the teachers’ union, were abducted as suspected guerrilla sympathisers. In December 2000 FARC carried out a major attack on Granada, killing 29 people and destroying over 200 buildings. President Uribe visited Granada in Aug. 2003 to mark its reconstruction but his helicopter was fired on by FARC guerrillas and he was forced to make a second, successful flight in.
     
Further comments: Rural Granada was the site for the release of a second group of journalists kidnapped by the ELN in Oct 2000 “to protest the lack of coverage in the Colombian media of human rights abuses by the Colombian army…” Release was negotiated by the Comision Facilitadora de Paz de Antioquia.
 
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