In this series of photo galleries on Colombia, we are following the ICRC’s Marçal Izard’s return to Colombia 10 years after his first mission with the organization there. As the armed conflict has shifted towards remote areas, indigenous communities are increasingly being affected.
Their traditional healers, although highly skilled at curing diseases with the aid of herbal medicine, are at a loss to know how to deal with “rains of bullets.” Marçal met with two women whose lives were shattered following incidents with makeshift bombs and unexploded ordnance.
Colombia: indigenous people struggle to protect themselves from an illness called “war”
– October 21, 2010Posted in: Featured
