Rights murders condemned

Geneva - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday condemned the murder in Colombia of two human rights workers and…

Geneva - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday condemned the murder in Colombia of two human rights workers and the kidnapping of four others.

"I condemn in the strongest terms these attacks," Mrs Mary Robinson said in a statement. Mr Julio Gonzales and Mr Everardo de Jesus Puerta were going to a conference when gunmen forced them off a bus and shot them dead.

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