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Colombia court says 5,733 people killed, disappeared in campaign against left-wing party

FILE PHOTO: Lit candles are seen in front of coffins containing human remains during a ceremony in Medellin, Colombia February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Fredy Builes/File Photo

Some 5,733 people were killed or disappeared in Colombia as part of a campaign against the left-wing Patriotic Union (UP) party between 1984 and 2016, acts linked to paramilitaries with military backing, the country's transitional justice tribunal said on Friday.

According to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), some 4,616 of the victims were murdered, while 1,117 were forcibly disappeared over the more than three-decade period.

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