Family members pay tribute to Colombia’s war victims
By AFP
27 May 2017 |
2:40 pm
Family members of 154 victims of forced disappearances that occurred during more than half a century of armed conflict in Colombia received glass sculptures containing images of their loved ones and participated in a march in central Bogota.
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