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Desplazados - Colombia

2008-04-23–2008-05-02

Nearly four million people are living displaced in Colombia, thats the second largest internal refugee catastrophe in the world. The Coca-farmers are some of the people that get trapped in the conflict. It has not improved under President Álvaro Uribes government. Trade unions, left politicians and peasant movements are examples of groups that under the new doctrine are categorized among the enemies, terrorists, guerrilla. Most are fleeing instead of taking the fight, and in the outskirts of the country's largest cities, shantytowns groves - up and down the hills. Text by Per Liljas

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