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photographer Paul Mark Smith · Colombia

Return to Cacarica

A wooden boat "chalupa" full of displaced people returning along a calm river at dusk
Displaced peoples of el Chocó return to their territories to found Peace Communities after three years of absence.
  • Sacks of Food Aid and Displaced Refugee children
  • The displaced community from Salaquí carry a banner asking for "Justice" in a march to commemorate those killed and displaced in Operation Genesis
  • Farmer in sombrero looks up and many people sitting in a wooden boat

Text pending (posted October 2022)

A widow with a candle in a Catholic mass to commemorate those killed in Operation Genesis
The community of Salaquí & Cacarica living in displacement in the port of Turbo remember their dead in a mass on the eve of the return to Cacarice to found Peace Communities and resist the armed groups active in the area through passive resistance and zero collaboration with all the armed actors.
  • The displaced community from Salaquí carry a banner asking for "Solidarity" in a march to commemorate those killed and displaced in Operation Genesis
  • The displaced community from Salaquí carry a banner asking for "Justice" in a march to commemorate those killed and displaced in Operation Genesis
  • The displaced community from Salaquí carry a banner asking for "Truth" in a march to commemorate those killed and displaced in Operation Genesis
  • The displaced community of Salaquí with candles in a Catholic mass to commemorate those killed in Operation Genesis
  • A young girl with a candle in a Catholic mass to commemorate those killed in Operation Genesis
  • A candlelit Catholic mass to commemorate those killed in Operation Genesis
Widows carry masks in a march to commemorate those killed in Operation Genesis
Widows from the community of Salaquí & Cacarica living in displacement in the port of Turbo remember their dead by carrying faces that represent lost husbands, sons and brothers and call for justice, truth and solidarity on the eve of their return to Cacarice to found Peace Communities and resist the armed groups active in the area through passive resistance and zero collaboration with all the armed actors.
  • Farmer with cigarette holds a small girl
  • A young woman wrapped in a plastic sheet crosses turbulent water
  • A mother with her girl child in a wooden boat that passes along a river
  • A multi-coloured flag of the Peace Community flies as a wooden boat crosses an expanse of water
  • A young man in the rain and spray as a boat crosses the gulf
  • A woman look out from a plastic sheet as she shelters from the water whilst crossing a gulf
  • A girl lies her head on the prow of a wooden boat that passes along a river
  • Displaced people in wooden boats that pass along a river
  • Widows carry masks in a march to commemorate those killed in Operation Genesis
  • Men and dogs with a flag in a wooden boat that passes along a river
  • A young girl and mothers with children in a wooden boat
  • Passengers in a boat in silence as they approach their destination
  • A boat arrives and the passengers prepare to disembark
  • Passengers disembark from wooden boats carrying their luggage
  • Children wait on the river's edge
  • A man with a sombrero
  • Girls sit on luggage on the river's edge
  • A boy stands on the river's edge by a wooden boat
  • A woman carries her possessions on her shoulder as wooden boats arrive and people disembark
  • Children sit by luggage
  • A woman carries a bag on her shoulders amongst boat passengers
A young afro-colombian girl with a staff on the river's edge
Displaced peoples of el Chocó return to their territories to found Peace Communities after three years of absence.
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