Colombia: August 13, 2005

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In an unusual incident, one of the smaller rebel groups, the EPL, ambushed and killed a police patrol 420 kilometers northeast of the capital. Four policemen were killed. The growing police and army operations against all rebel groups has brought government forces into areas that they have not controlled for over a decade. The rebels and bandits are resisting, because they have no place to run to. 

 

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