Colombian paramilitaries set for release

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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — One veteran of Colombia’s disbanded far-right militias admitted to ordering or taking part in at least 3,000 killings, mostly targeting leftists , and incinerating many of the corpses to destroy evidence.

Another ordered a hit on a prominent intellectual who had been unjustly accused of backing insurgents and kept evidence on his laptop that helped convict Colombia’s then-national spy chief in the killing.

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