Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Colombia land restitution: Uphill battle for returning families” – below is their description.
A decade after a landmark land restitution law passed in Colombia, returning families displaced by confrontations between FARC rebels and paramilitary groups to their properties remains an uphill battle.
Just a fraction of the land has been assigned and few projects have been established to guarantee returning families a livelihood in a place scarred by conflict.
Those families who have returned – and are trying to make a new living by planting legal crops instead of coca – are worried that the slow pace of reparations will allow violence to rack the region again.
Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Valle del Guamez, Colombia.
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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