A noncombatant killed by FARC guerrillas in Putumayo, southern Colombia. This man and at least eight others were slain within a two-day period, after being accused by the rebels of collaborating with right-wing paramilitaries.

A young boy looks at the body of a man killed by FARC guerrillas in Putumayo. The rebels accused the victim of collaborating with right-wing militias.

A displaced family flees their village in southern Colombia after FARC guerrillas killed at least seven civilians there. As territory changes hands between guerrillas and paramilitaries, more and more civilians are forced from their homes.

A Colombian man and his family who have fled the violence of the coca-growing region in southern Colombia now live in a makeshift camp along the border of Ecuador and Colombia.

Colombians displaced by paramilitary and guerrilla violence prepare to return home along the Atrato River, Choco.

Colombians displaced by violence have lived several years in temporary shelters like this one in an abandoned gymnasium in Quibdo, Choco state.

A man displaced by Colombia's war.

Children forced to leave their homes by Colombia's armed conflict spend their days in temporary shelters. Three hundred thousand people were internally displaced in Colombia in 2001, 45 percent of them children.