Seattle PI/ AP / 3 screen read
President Juan Manuel Santos wants to compensate 4 million victims of the two decades long civil war...at a cost of $20 billion....for their loss of land...nearly the size of Austria.
But leaders of the dispossessed peasants movement keep getting killed...50 since 2002.
And Colombia can't seem to end the murders.
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