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  • Campesinos walk past burnt-out vehicles on their way to the town of San rafael after being ordered to leave their homes by the FARC(Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrilla. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Displaced campesinos pass by vehicles burnt by FARC guerrillas during an armed stoppage. The insurgent group ordered the peasants of villages in the area to leave their homes, provoking a mass desplacement of familes who sought refuge in the nearby town of San Rafael. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Displaced campesinos pass by vehicles burnt by FARC guerrillas during an armed stoppage. The insurgent group ordered the peasants of villages in the area to leave their homes, provoking a mass desplacement of familes who sought refuge in the nearby town of San Rafael. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Families displaced by the conflict block the main Bogotá-Medellín highway to protest State abandonment. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • ¨Mano de Díos¨ (The hand of God) a settlement of displaced families. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • An Afro-Colombian woman & her children by a row of plantains which the mother waits to sell in the hamlet of Pavarandó, a hamlet that has become a temporary refuge to hundreds of families who were forcibly displaced from their lands by a joint Army & paramilitary offensive. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Three adolescant girls, one a mother of a small child, in the 'peace community' of Cacarica - a settlement of people who were displaced by a joint military-paramilitary offensive, named Operation Genesis, in 1997. After three years in temporary accommodation, the displaced people of the region were moved to 'peace communities'. These communities offer safety to those displaced by the ongoing conflict, and are aided and monitored by church groups and NGOs, as the area is still vulnerable to attack. There is some guerrilla presence, and the settlement is surrounded by the Colombian military and paramilitaries. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • A girl from the Peace Community of Cacarica in a hammock...The Peace Community was founded in 2000 by peasants, the majority of Afro-Colombian origin, who were displaced by a joint military-paramilitary offensive, named Operation Genesis, in 1997. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Paramilitary graffiti in Pavarandó. ¨Death - People's self-defense forces.¨ By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Paramilitary graffiti on a tienda in Pavarandó. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • A displaced man living in the home of a family thet fled the town of San José de Apartadó By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Unloading matresses distributed by the NGO Oxfam in Pavarandó. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Graffiti on a house in the hamlet of Pavarandó: ¨People's Self-defense forces. Death to guerrilla collaborators.¨ The hamlet is refuge to hundreds of families who were forcibly displaced from their lands by a joint Army & paramilitary offensive. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • An Afro-Colombian woman & her children by a row of plantains which the mother waits to sell in the hamlet of Pavarandó, a hamlet that has become a temporary refuge to hundreds of families who were forcibly displaced from their lands by a joint Army & paramilitary offensive. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Displaced families in Pavarandó, a village which serves as a temporary refuge for hundreds of displaced families forced to flee their lands by a joint paramilitary & Colombian military offensive called ¨Operation Genesis¨. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Displaced children in the Pavarandó camp, where hundreds of families displaced from their homes by the military & paramilitary forces live in temporary plastic tents. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Displaced persons in Pavarandó, a village which serves as a temporary refuge for hundreds of displaced families forced to flee their lands by a joint paramilitary & Colombian military offensive called ¨Operation Genesis¨. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Displaced families in their temporary accomodation in Pavarandó, a village which serves as a temporary refuge for hundreds of displaced families forced to flee their lands by a joint paramilitary & Colombian military offensive called ¨Operation Genesis¨. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Pedro, a displaced man, feeds his grandchild in Pavarandó, a village which serves as a temporary refuge for hundreds of displaced families forced to flee their lands by a joint paramilitary & Colombian military offensive called ¨Operation Genesis¨. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Unloading matresses distributed by the NGO Oxfam in Pavarandó where hundreds of displaced families live in a temporory refuge. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • A man carries a small babe through a neighbourhood in Turbo where displaced families have constructed their homes. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Homes of displaced families in a poor neighbourhood of Turbo. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • In the Peace Community of San José de Apartado, Antioquia, a community which has taken a neutral stance before the conflict and has suffered the murders of over 170 of its' population between 1997 & 2008 principally at the hands of the Colombian military & paramilitary groups with ties to the Army, but also at the hands of FARC guerrillas. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Two campesinos from the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó return to their land to collect crops. Their trips to their outlying hamlets are made with international accompaniment as the community has been targeted numerous times by the Army & paramilitary groups, and also guerrillas of the FARC. By photographer Paul Smith
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  • Paramilitary graffiti wishing the inhabitants of Riosucio a Merry Christmas. The ACCU paramilitary group (Peasant Self-defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá) in the previous months had selectively killed dozens of community leaders and representatives and had, with the military, displaced thousands of Afro-Colombians from their homes in the Middle Atrato region. By photographer Paul Smith
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