Wed Apr 13, 6:33 PM ET World - Reuters
By Hugh Bronstein
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's human rights situation was "critical" in 2004 with not only the country's illegal armed groups torturing and murdering but members of the state security forces as well, the United Nations said in a report.
The annual report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights says the main violators in Colombia are left-wing guerrilla groups and far-right paramilitary militias, engaged in a war for control of lucrative cocaine producing territory in this impoverished Andean country.
But the organization also said it received reports throughout last year of killings and forced displacements attributed to government security forces.
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