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The Victims of Salaminita: The road to land restitution in Colombia

This post originally appeared on Place. By Adriana Ortiz-Serrano For the 263 residents of Salaminita, a village near Colombia’s Caribbean coast, all that is left of their town is a sign and clamors for justice. The villagers, who fled their homes in 1999 after paramilitary forces killed three residents and threatened the rest at gunpoint, have yet to be given back their land [...]