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Edgar Ariza, Marine Corps Soldier. On October 2000 was wounded in combat in Meta region. Edgar suffered amputation of metatarsals of his left foot and 80% hearing loss.
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Hundreds of soldiers were kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla and they were kept herded in barbed wire cages for months and some of them for years. This photo is a representatioin of this memory.
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War memory marked on the skin of Edgar Ariza, Marine Corps Soldier, wounded in combat on October 2000, in Meta region, Colombia. Edgar suffered amputation of metatarsals of his left foot and 80% hearing loss.
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Edgar Ariza, Marine Corps Soldier. On October 2000 was wounded in combat in Meta region. Edgar suffered amputation of metatarsals of his left foot and 80% hearing loss.
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Since 1990, over 7,000 Military Forces soldiers have been killed or wounded by landmines suffering mutilation. Soldiers and their families have not been visible to the civil society.
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Ismael Mena, Marine Corps Soldier, fell in a landmine area while his company was attacked in an ambuscade by the FARC guerrilla (Rural area of Coveñas municipality, Colombia, Oct. 1996). Ismael suffered mutilation of his left leg.
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This is the war memory marked on Ismael Mena body, Marine Corps Soldier whose company was attacked in an ambuscade by the FARC guerrilla (Rural area of Coveñas municipality, Colombia, Oct. 1996). Ismael suffered mutilation of his left leg.
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Ismael Mena, Marine Corps Soldier who fell in a landmine area and suffered mutilation of his left leg in 1996, with his granddaughter (San Antero, Colombia, 2016)
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War memories in the family photo album of María Montes, widow of Marine Corp Soldier Hernan Florez. On September 2002, Hernan fell in combat with the FARC guerrilla in rural zone of Ovejas municipality, Colombia.
The Unkown Soldiers
Photojournalism and documentary photography regarding the internal armed conflict in Colombia have focused on civilian victims and recently on the FARC guerrilla camps during its demobilization. Since 1990, over 7,000 Military Forces soldiers have been killed or wounded by landmines suffering mutilation. Soldiers and their families have not been visible to the civil society. When peace agreement was reached last year, 51% of the population voted in a plebiscite against its implementation. People take the sacrifice of those soldiers for granted.
It is essential to make the soldiers basic human side more visible, their pain but also their resilience and hope, in order to pave the road of peace in the post-conflict phase.
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