Colombia: October 24, 2004

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 Land mines have killed or injured 560 people so far this year, but the government has renounced their use, and destroyed their stockpile of 6,800 mines.  The rebels, particularly FARC, have been using mines more of late, mainly to try and protect their rural bases from police and army raids. 

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