The crisis in Buenaventura : disappearances, dismemberment, and displacement in Colombia's main Pacific port /

The crisis in Buenaventura : disappearances, dismemberment, and displacement in Colombia's main Pacific port /

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Author / Creator:	Schoening, Max, author.
Imprint:	[United States of America] : Human Rights Watch, [2014] ©2014
Description:	31 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Political violence -- Colombia -- Buenaventura. Domestic terrorism -- Colombia -- Buenaventura. Internally displaced persons -- Colombia -- Buenaventura. Disappeared persons -- Colombia -- Buenaventura. Human rights -- Colombia -- Buenaventura. Disappeared persons. Domestic terrorism. Human rights. Internally displaced persons. Political violence. Colombia -- Buenaventura.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9965377

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Varying Form of Title:	Disappearances, dismemberment, and displacement in Colombia's main Pacific port
Other authors / contributors:	Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
ISBN:	9781623131128 162313112X
Notes:	Cover title. "This report was written by Max Schoening"--Page 31. Also available via the Human Rights Watch Web site.
Summary:	"This 30-page report documents how many of the city's neighborhoods are dominated by powerful criminal groups that commit widespread abuses, including abducting and dismembering people, sometimes while still alive, then dumping them in the sea. The groups maintain 'chop-up houses' (casas de pique) where they slaughter victims, according to witnesses, residents, the local Catholic church, and some officials"--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	"This 30-page report documents how many of the citys neighborhoods are dominated by powerful criminal groups that commit widespread abuses, including abducting and dismembering people, sometimes while still alive, then dumping them in the sea. The groups maintain chop-up houses (casas de pique) where they slaughter victims, according to witnesses, residents, the local Catholic church, and some officials"--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:	Cover title. "This report was written by Max Schoening"--Page 31.
Physical Description:	31 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN:	9781623131128 162313112X