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Friday, September 19, 2003
Colombia Conflict Drawing In More Children
Human Rights Watch reports that 11,000 underage combatants -- as young as 12 -- are fighting for rival militias in the civil war.
Locked in a decades-old conflict that claims nearly 4,000 lives a year, Colombia is the third-largest recipient of aid from the United States.
EL - rumors say that Columbia was to receive at least a brigade of U.S. troops but too many were needed for Iraq.
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