Colombian armed conflict

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The Colombian armed conflict is a decades-long internal war involving the government, left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, and criminal groups, marked by widespread violence, displacement, and human rights abuses.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf civil conflict
internal armed conflict
non-international armed conflict
country Colombia
estimatedDeaths over 200000
estimatedDisplacedPersons over 7 million
hasCause Cold War ideological polarization
drug trafficking economy
land inequality
political exclusion
rural poverty
hasEffect extrajudicial killings
forced disappearances
internal displacement
kidnappings
landmine contamination
massacres
recruitment of child soldiers
sexual violence
hasParticipant Armed Forces of Colombia
surface form: Colombian security forces

Government of Colombia
M-19 guerrilla movement
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Popular Liberation Army (EPL)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
surface form: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP)

United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
United States of America
surface form: United States

Colombian drug cartels
surface form: criminal bands (BACRIM)

drug trafficking organizations
left-wing guerrilla groups
right-wing paramilitary groups
involves Plan Colombia
coca eradication campaigns
counterinsurgency operations
peace negotiations
legalCharacterization armed conflict under international humanitarian law
locatedIn South America
monitoredBy Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
surface form: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia
peaceProcess 2016 Colombian peace agreement
Havana peace talks
peakPeriod 1990s
early 2000s
recognizedBy Government of Colombia
surface form: Colombian government

United Nations
relatedTo United States interventions in Latin America
surface form: Cold War in Latin America

War on Drugs
significantEvent demobilization of AUC
demobilization of FARC-EP
startTime 1964

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Armed Forces of Colombia conflict Colombian armed conflict
Noticia de un secuestro mainSubject Colombian armed conflict
this entity surface form: Colombian conflict
Cold War proxy conflicts hasPart Colombian armed conflict
this entity surface form: La Violencia in Colombia (late phase)
José Rodríguez Gacha activeIn Colombian armed conflict
this entity surface form: Colombian conflict
Caquetá Department historicallyAffectedBy Colombian armed conflict
Colombian National Army conflict Colombian armed conflict
this entity surface form: Colombian conflict
Camilo Torres Restrepo participatedIn Colombian armed conflict
La muerte de Pablo Escobar mainSubject Colombian armed conflict
this entity surface form: Colombian drug war