Ciudad Bolívar, a shanty town in the south of Bogota, where internally displaced people from all over the country live, Colombia

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Ciudad Bolívar, a shanty town in the south of Bogota, where internally displaced people from all over the country live, Colombia, 24 May 2009. With nearly fifty years of armed conflict, Colombia has the highest number of civil war refugees in the world. During the last ten years of the civil war more than 3 million people have been forced to abandon their lands and to leave their homes due to the violence. Internally displaced people (IDPs) come from remote rural areas, where most of the clashes between leftist guerrillas FARC-ELN, right-wing paramilitary groups and government forces takes place. Displaced persons flee in a hurry, carrying just personal belongings, and thus they inevitably end up in large slums of the big cities, with no hope for the future.

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Size: 5316px × 3544px
Location: Ciudad Bolívar, Bogota, Colombia
Photo credit: © Jan Sochor / Alamy / Afripics
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