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photographer Paul Mark Smith · Colombia

After Genesis · Urabá

Turbo

Displaced children in an area of wooden homes
Internally Displaced forced to flee by Operation Genesis, a Colombian Army and paramilitary joint offensive, in the port town of Turbo. September 1997
  • Displaced women and boy with girl baby in an area of wooden homes
  • Displaced children in an area of wooden homes
  • A boy on a bike surrounded by logs
  • Displaced children in an area of wooden homes
  • A displaced man carries a small baby along a log

Pavarandó

Young girl and paramilitary skull and crossbones and death graffiti
“Death – People’s Self-defences” – Graffiti left by right-wing paramilitaries in the village of Pavarandó in the Urabá region. The village had become the site of a refugee camp as thousands of displaced Afro-Colombian families were halted here by the Colombian Army after being displaced from their homes in the Salaquí area of the Lower Atrato River region.
  • A nun speaks with a woman with a broom as they look at paramilitary graffiti on the woman's home
  • soldier and displaced people gathered
  • Four children in a camp for displaced people
  • Unloading mattresses from a truck
  • A girl in a camp for IDPs
  • Unloading mattresses from a truck
  • Young woman and paramilitary graffiti threatening death
  • A girl carries a plank on her head and a woman sweeps in a wood house with graffiti threatening death
  • A displaced mother with three children sells plantains, a baby sleeps in a hammock
  • Many displaced people in a shelter at night time
  • Displaced families in a narrow corridor of a shelter
  • A wooden built shop painted with paramilitary graffiti, a soldier and children
A grandfather gives his granson food from a bowl

Text pending (posted October 2022)

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