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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The five soldiers who killed Maria Elena Rios in a hillside slum of the city of Medellin said she was a guerrilla who died in combat. After a swift investigation, the army closed the case.
But if Rios was a fighter, why was she wearing 3-inch platform shoes when soldiers shot the 25-year-old in the head and back?
That is one of many questions being raised three years later by the public prosecutor's office, which has reopened 131 disciplinary investigations of killings of civilians presented as deaths of leftist rebels in action.
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