Istmina, Choco, Colombia.
A brief respite from the fears of exile as children play in the San Juan river. The Wounaan were forced to flee their ancestral lands after Colombian leftist guerillas, the FARC murdered two Wounaan community leaders for resisting FARC efforts to control their tribe and recruit their youth. Of a population of 1,748, more than 700 have fled.
Many of the children are suffering the worst, sick with diarrhoea, TB, and skin lesions.
Following 40 years of civil war, Colombia has the world's third highest displaced population due to conflict. A displacement described by the UN as one of the largest since the Second World War.
