| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | War on Drugs
Kolumbien. Hundreds displaced in northeast Colombia amid combat
Combat between Colombia’s security forces and an unidentified illegal armed group forced some 240 locals to flee their homes in the northeast of the country, according to the United Nations.
The fighting has been taking place for days in the municipality of Hacari, Norte de Santander, from where the first reports of combat and displacement began coming in on Tuesday.
Hacari lies on the border of Catatumbo, a coca-rich and lawless area where ELN and dissident EPL guerrillas, and the paramilitary Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) have primarily been active. (Columbia Reports, 24.07.2017)
https://colombiareports.com/hundreds-displaced-northeast-colombia-amid-combat/