Colombia Sacks Troops Over Deaths -- BBC News
The Colombian government has sacked three generals and 22 other soldiers over alleged extrajudicial killings.
They are suspected of being involved in the deaths of 11 young men from Bogota, whose bodies were found in mass graves in the north-east of the country.
Rights groups say they were kidnapped or lured with the promise of work, then killed in combat zones to inflate army statistics on rebels killed.
One of the sacked officers, Gen Jose Joaquin Cortes, denied the allegations.
He told Colombian radio: "I still absolutely believe in the innocence of my men."
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