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Colombia's Internal displaced people
With 4 million internal displaced persons, Colombia presents the highest number of internally displaced people in the western hemisphere, and the second largest displaced population in the world after Sudan. The displacement is related to the country’s four-decade-long internal armed conflict, the most protracted in Latin America.There are a variety of reasons that rural Colombians are being forcibly displaced from their homes. Some find themselves caught in the midst of fighting between leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries seeking to establish territorial control over strategic regions. Others are displaced by paramilitaries because they live on resource-rich or economically valuable lands. Upon seizing control of an area, armed groups often kill civilians and abuse of women and girls. Official sources claim that 74 per cent of the internally displaced are women and children. And the story does not end with initial displacement. Internally displaced are becoming displaced a second and even a third time. Healthcare access is difficult and dangerous for those in rural conflict zones and those forced to seek refuge in urban slums. In some areas, there have been reports of internally displaced young men being forcibly recruited into irregular armed groups. Human rights defenders suspected of supporting the opposing side are frequently killed. © Antonio Tiso & Ilenia Piccioni
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