Jenny Dillon writes about Colombia in Third Way Cafe:
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As I was slowly coming awake one morning, two words made my eyes pop open: extrajudicial killings. Though the radio journalist was not talking about Colombia, she could have been. I was now fully conscious and thinking about the grave situation there. The country doesn’t make the news very often despite the fact that, “with nearly five million internally displaced persons, Colombia is now the Western Hemisphere’s … best hidden humanitarian crisis.”
That startling statistic is included in a summary of a report on a delegation to observe the humanitarian and human rights situation in the southern province of Córdoba that MCC partner Justapaz (The Christian Center for Justice, Peace and Nonviolent Action) participated in last October 2009. The report continues, “Findings… illustrate the growing humanitarian crisis … a deterioration of respect for human rights … and increased violence as a result of growing paramilitary actions.”
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