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This slideshow contains a selection from Garry Leech’s photos of Colombia’s armed conflict. (Warning: Some photos contain graphic images)

  • FARC guerrillas in their jungle camp. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A coca picker harvests coca leaves in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A Colombian army helicopter in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Displaced indigenous Awa children in Altaquer, Narino. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An AUC paramilitary camp near El Dorado, Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A massacre victim who was eight months pregnant in El Placer, Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An Afro-Colombian woman in her home in La Guajira. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • U.S. Army Special Forces soldier teaches counter-insurgency tactics to Colombian troops in Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Displaced indigenous Awa in Ricaurte, Narino. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An oil well in the Colombian Amazon. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • FARC Commander Raul Reyes and his infamous laptop eight months before he was killed. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An indigenous woman feeding her baby in Guainia. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A peasant’s house and coca crops in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Afro-Colombian women wash clothes in the Atrato River, Choco. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Female FARC guerrillas relax in their jungle camp. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A coca paste lab in Meta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Processing coca leaves into coca paste in Meta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Processing coca leaves into coca paste in Meta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • More than 300 displaced people living in a slaughterhouse in El Charco, Narino. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A displaced mother and her baby living in a slaughterhouse in El Charco, Narino. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • U.S.-trained Colombian counter-narcotics troops in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Cocaine processing lab in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Processing coca paste into cocaine base in a lab in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Four kilos of cocaine base in a lab in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • AUC paramilitaries on patrol in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • The body of a massacre victim in a hole in Los Angeles, Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An Afro-Colombian peasant transporting African palm fruit in Narino. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Indigenous Embera children in the village of Egorokera on the Opogodo River, Choco. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An indigenous Embera child in the village of Egorokera, Choco. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An indigenous Embera mother and child in the Choco. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A FARC judge dispenses revolutionary justice in a makeshift courthouse in Caqueta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A displaced family in Caqueta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • AUC paramilitaries in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • U.S. Army Special Forces soldier in Saravena, Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Two AUC paramilitaries in El Dorado, Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A massacre victim in Puerto Asis, Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • FARC commander Simon Trinidad in Caqueta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • The entrance to the Drummond company’s open-pit coal mine in La Loma, Cesar. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Three generations of a peasant family living in the mountains of Tolima. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Coca plants killed by aerial fumigations in Meta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Bananas killed by aerial fumigations in Meta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A papaya tree killed by aerial fumigations in Meta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • FARC guerrillas relax in their jungle camp. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A coffee farmer drying his beans in Quindio. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • AUC paramilitaries in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A mural of Che Guevara in Barrancabermeja, Santander. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Peasants protesting in Lizama, Santander. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • ACCU paramilitaries in Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • ACCU paramilitaries in Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A displaced woman washes clothes in a shantytown in Cali. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A displaced Afro-Colombian child in a shantytown in Cali. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Riding in the rear of a truck with an AUC paramilitary fighter in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A peasant who lost his leg to a landmine in Zaragoza, Antioquia. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • U.S. Army Special Forces soldier in Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A massacre victim whose face has been pummelled beyond recognition in Putumayo. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A female FARC guerrilla in Caqueta. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A Colombian army psychologist applies camouflage make-up to a small child in Saravena, Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • The statue of the “Oil Christ” in front of Colombia’s largest oil refinery in Barrancabermeja, Santander. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Colombian soldier on patrol in Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • An opium poppy field in the mountains of Cauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • Opium poppies used to produce heroin in Cauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A National Police officer on patrol in Saravena, Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A small girl stands by a National Police officer in Saravena, Arauca. (Credit: Garry Leech)
  • A statue celebrating escaped slaves in the town of Palenque, Bolivar. (Credit: Garry Leech)