Colombia politics: State link to activist killings

Al Jazeera English 2016-09-16

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Colombia's president says the state was involved in the deaths of thousands of left-wing political activists in the 1980s.
President Juan Manuel Santos is pledging to prevent those kind of assassinations happening again.
Rob Matheson explains.
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