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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Luis Jaime Acosta

Colombia's violence causes more displacement, explosives' victims - ICRC

Lorenzo Caraffi, head of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia, speaks during the presentation of the 2021 annual report in Bogota, Colombia, March 23, 2022. Luis Jaime Acosta/REUTERS

Surging violence in Colombia caused the number of people internally displaced, forced to restrict their movements and injured or killed by explosives to hit the highest in five years in 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.

The South American country's internal armed conflict has burned for almost six decades, leaving at least 260,000 dead and millions displaced, and fighting continues despite the signing of a peace deal between the government and the demobilized guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016.

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