The girl on the picture above puts a peace symbol on a soldier in what is perhaps the world's most violent country, Colombia. The girl is a member of Movimiento de los Ninos por la Paz (The Children's Peace Movement).

Violence in Colombia has an effect on the lives of 18 million people every day and has been going on for a long time. The country was seized by the Spanish in 1499 after which followed one hundred years of violence. In 1948 a civil war began and 300,000 people were killed

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