Colombia: Over 8 Million People Have Been Affected by War

[Judi Lynn]

Colombian young woman at a photographic exhibition on the armed conflict and its victims,
Bogota, Colombia, August 23, 2019. | Photo: EFE

Published 29 August 2019 (9 hours 15 minutes ago)

President Ivan Duque's delay in the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement increased the statistics of violence.

Up to August 1, 2019, the Colombian armed conflict had generated 8,874,110 "registered" victims, according to the National System of Attention and Reparation for Victims (SNARIV), an official policy instrument created in 2012 to comply with the Land Restitution and Victims Act (Law 1448).

Among the accumulated historical national data, there are also 7,535,682 people displaced from their homes, 1,009,990 homicides, 416,463 people threatened, 173,066 people missing, 115,413 people who reported property losses, 82,380 victims of attacks, 36,980 kidnappings, 28,641 crimes against sexual freedom and integrity, 28,096 people in confinement, 8,169 persons with permanent physical injuries, and 7,583 violent acts directly related to children and adolescents.

The number of victims of Colombian violence, however, could be much higher if one considers what happened before the launch of the SNARIV information system.

During the 20th century, Colombia went through several periods of inner armed conflicts. Among the most remote antecedents for the armed conflict in rural areas is the disputes between farmers for the control of coffee lands in the 1920s, which ignited long-lasting differences between liberals and conservatives.

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