"They didn't accept HIV-positive people ... they shot them and burned the bodies"
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David Gomez*, 27, is from the Department of Cordoba, a province on Colombia's Caribbean coast in the north of the country, but he now lives in Bogota, the capital. He joined the AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia), Colombia's largest illegal paramilitary group, when he was 15 and stayed with the group for nine years. He talked to IRIN/PlusNews about the difficulty of adjusting to civilian life after he left the group, and the discovery that he had contracted HIV.
