'We Want Peace': Colombians Swept Up In Bloody Guerrilla Violence

A banner reading 'We Want Peace' hangs on a street in Teorama municipality in Colombia's Catatumbo region, where the country's worst security crisis in a decade is raging a series of guerrilla attacks (Credit: AFP)

The children of northeastern Colombia have a message for guerrillas blamed for the country's worst violence in over a decade -- as well as for rival militants tempted to take revenge.

"We want Peace," they wrote in block capitals on a huge white banner in the town of Teorama in Catatumbo region, where at least 80 people have been killed and 40,000 displaced in a turf war linked to the cocaine trade.