War and peace

Forced displacement

More than 8.4 million people have been forcibly displaced in Colombia since the beginning of the country’s armed conflict, according to the government. In 2022, more than 180,000 people were…

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Forced disappearances

More than 150,000 people were disappeared during Colombia’s half-a-century armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. More than half of them are still missing. The number of forcibly disappeared…

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Extrajudicial executions

Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by the military that dressed their victims as guerrillas to present them as combat kills…

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Parapolitics

The term parapolitics is used to describe the ties between paramilitary organizations like the now-demobilized AUC, and state officials in Colombia. Opposition Senator Gustavo Petro has been denouncing ties between…

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