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In 2009, Colombian prosecutors reported that an estimated 28, 000 people have disappeared due to paramilitary and guerrilla groups during the nation's ongoing internal conflict.

In 2008, the corpses of 300 victims were identified and 600 more during the following year.

According to Colombian officials, it will take many years before all the bodies that have been recovered are identified.