Jonathan Rayner
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Death of a Family - the Colombia Way

(0) Comments | Posted August 28, 2012 | 12:43 PM

First they killed Omairi's daughter. The paramilitaries meant to kill her husband, a journalist who was exposing corruption in Colombia, South America. They bungled the assassination and he survived, but their daughter died.
That was 22 April 2004, their daughter's twentieth birthday.
Five years later, they killed Omairi's...

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Death Threat by Text - A Day in the Life of a Colombian Lawyer

(0) Comments | Posted August 23, 2012 | 7:00 PM

It was a death threat, sent by text to the mobile telephone of a lawyer in Colombia, South America. The message, translated from the Spanish and sanitised for the firewalls, said: "Hi, b*stard dogs. You have already done your bit, now it's our turn. Get all those b*stards together for...

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