Colombia: Awa Mayasquer Community Displaced
Back on their ancestral lands in the Colombian rainforest, the Awá Mayasquer people hunted, raised livestock and planted food crops. But caught in the crossfire between government forces and left-wing guerrillas, they were forced to flee. Indigenous peoples like them are among those most impacted by more than five decades of armed conflict in Colombia that has displaced more than 7.6 million people both within the country and beyond its borders.
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