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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shanti Das in Pondores

‘They think we’re terrorists’: Colombia’s female former guerrilla fighters find no peace

Ex-guerilla María Sepúlveda at the Pondores camp in La Guajira.
Ex-guerilla María Sepúlveda at the Pondores camp in
La Guajira.
Photograph: Shanti Das/The Observer

In a Colombian reintegration camp for former guerrilla fighters, María Rosalba García de Sepúlveda sits beneath a parrot wind chime next to her green and orange shack. Wearing leaf-pattern trousers and eating jam biscuits, she couldn’t be less threatening if she tried. But she feels her life is at risk. “You fear for your security at all times,” the 68-year-old says.

For 43 years Sepúlveda was part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc – a leftwing guerrilla group founded by farmers that spent five decades fighting the government.

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