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Judi Lynn

(160,474 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:22 PM Jun 2014

Colombia has 2nd highest rate of forced displacement in the world: UN

Colombia has 2nd highest rate of forced displacement in the world: UN
Jun 20, 2014 posted by Arthi Nachiappan

Colombia is home to one of the world’s largest populations of displaced people, according to a study by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Half a century of war has uprooted a total of almost six million Colombians to date; a statistic which places the country second only to Syria with Nigeria being third, according to the latest data from the International Displacement Monitoring Center.

In 2013, the number of victims globally increased by six million, compared with 2012, said the UN study on displacement across the world, presented by High Commissioner Antonio Guterres.

Meanwhile, the number of people displaced in Colombia fell by 32% from 2012 to 2013, according to a joint report by the Colombian government and a local NGO released earlier this month.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/colombia-records-one-worlds-highest-rates-displacement-un/

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Colombia has 2nd highest rate of forced displacement in the world: UN (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2014 OP

I wish Santos luck in bringing an end to the war which has caused all these Louisiana1976 Jun 2014 #1

If it ever gets done it will be through Santos in the near future. Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #2

Louisiana1976

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1. I wish Santos luck in bringing an end to the war which has caused all these

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:30 PM

Jun 2014

displacements.

Judi Lynn

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2. If it ever gets done it will be through Santos in the near future.

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 07:35 PM

Jun 2014

The "tradition" of stealing land goes back a long way, far, far back. The death squad paramilitaries (AUC) have approached small land owners and demanded the owners sell them their land for an unbelievably tiny sum. When the landowners would protest, they always told them they would take up the matter with their widows.

Sooner or later, most of this land has made its way to being owned by the Colombian government which has then made it available to international corporations, mining companies, agricultural companies, large landowners, etc.

Former Alvaro Uribe's own cousin has been uncovered as owning a lot of illegal land, himself.

What a sewer.

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