Photo Credit: Refugees International/ Andrea Lari
09/12/2005

Luzia has been living in this room for the last five months with her three children. When Refugees International visited with her, she looked disoriented and worried about her immediate future. Her husband was killed in early May by the left wing guerilla army FARC because he was accused of being an informant for the Colombian Army and she had to flee her village. She does not have any family member or friend in town and said, “I do not know what to do. I cannot go home to my village I am afraid I will also be killed. We were living well there, we had our fields and my husband was a good hunter. But they killed him, he was a good man. Where shall I go now?”

Refugees International (RI) launched its second mission to Colombia this year in September to generate greater attention and support for the internally displaced population.