Colombian village formerly controlled by rebels now empty

Monday, February 2, 2004

UNION PENEYA, Colombia -- Christmas trees still adorn living rooms, clothes spill out of flung-open drawers, testifying to the haste in which nearly 1,500 villagers fled this southern Colombian town in early January as the army closed in.

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