todaysnetworknews: 13 December 2009 – UNHCR: For decades, Colombia has been in the grips of a brutal conflict that has torn its social fabric apart. Its been called an invisible crisis, because it fails to make news and its victims prefer to remain anonymous. Various illegal armed groups have forced more than 3.5 million people from their homes. They operate mostly in rural areas- pushing people off their land, forcibly recruiting children, and controlling illegal drug crops. The vast majority of those displaced stay within the borders of Colombia. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Sebastian Diaz, UNHCR, Colombia They come to these big cities first with the intention of protecting themselves with invisibility and second they think they can access services so they can re-establish themselves. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José (not his real name), displaced: My wife was always scared, very terrorized. She couldn’t even sleep. She was always worried. She said, Lets leave this place because at any moment we can get killed. The displaced often end up in barrios like this one, living in cramped squalid conditions. It is a difficult adaptation. The ways of the city are foreign to them. They arrive traumatized by what they witnessed and then are traumatized again by the brutality of city life. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José (not his real name), displaced: Well for us it was a very radical change coming to a large city like this one without knowing anyone. Its hard. Many things are different, the way of …