Forging new leaders for a Colombian region torn by war - UNHCR
Julia Symmes Cobb
Yurany Bañol vividly remembers the gun battles that ravaged her family’s home in Chocó, Colombia.
“We were in the middle, with the army over there and the people who’d taken the land over here,” Bañol says, recounting shoot-outs between military forces and opportunists who took control of farms left behind by people fleeing the violence. “Who knows how many dead people are buried along that road.”
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