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September 2008, San
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4,400 Colombians
Displaced Toward Ecuador
Border
BOGOTA - Clashes between
government troops and
armed groups in Colombia
have displaced some
4,400 people from the
country's south toward
the Ecuadoran border,
the International
Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) in Colombia
reported Monday.
Most of the displaced
are women and children
from the southwestern
provinces of Narino and
Cauca, an ICRC
communique said.
These internal refugees
are suffering precarious
health conditions and
shortage of food and
housing, it added.
Serge Thierry, an ICRC
assistant manager, said
some of the displaced
are in a "serious
humanitarian situation."
"They do not have access
to subsistence
activities and are in
complicated conditions."
"The situation of the
armed conflict in those
zones is worrying the
residents and the
displaced people. Many
have no option but to
leave their homes and
lose their economic
support," the ICRC said.
The ICRC is worried
about the humanitarian
situation in the region,
as armed conflict
continues between the
paramilitary and
ultra-leftist groups, as
well as drug
traffickers.
The conflicts have made
Colombia home to the
second largest number of
displaced people in the
world, after Sudan,
which has 4 million.
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