The sheer scale of the problem presents UNHCR, which is playing a leading role in the protection of internally displaced persons in Colombia, with unique challenges.Īccording to government figures, which tend to be conservative, one in every eight inhabitants of Chocó is displaced, with more than 80,000 people forced to leave their homes in the past decade.
Their story is an all too common one in Colombia, where more than three million people have been displaced in and outside the country's borders in the past 10 years.
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The more than 470 residents of Piedra Candela left in May 2004 following a series of clashes in the area between the Colombian military and irregular armed guerrilla groups that led to the deaths of two residents and the disappearance of eight others. If most of the houses are empty of furniture and personal belongings, it is not their owners who removed them but the armed groups, who did not waste any time in taking their booty once the inhabitants had fled. Inside one house, records are scattered on the floor along with a small bicycle. Everywhere, there are signs that the town's residents left in a hurry. The main street, lined with one- and two-storey wooden houses, is eerily empty.
PIEDRA CANDELA, Colombia, August 15 (UNHCR) - Only silence can be heard in the once vibrant town of Piedra Candela on Colombia's Bojayá River. A journalist interviewing a displaced resident in the church of La Candelaria in the abandoned town of Piedra Candela in Colombia's Chocó province.
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