Many countries are involved in armed conflicts, and it seems that in the 21st century we should already have found different ways of solving political, economic or bureaucratic problems. Saving lives should be one of the priorities of all governments, yet we can see that budgets for the army and arms purchases continue to rise. We take a look at some of the countries involved in wars. Hopefully in the coming months many of them will end, especially in places where the death of civilians and especially children is most pressing.

Una niña de 19 años informó que un capitán del ejército la violó en un entorno en el cuartel de Manco Capac en la ciudad de Puno, donde fue voluntaria en el servicio militar para llevarla a una oficina y cometer el abuso. Ella dijo que el evento tuvo lugar el jueves por la mañana. Ella fue a registrarse y asistió el capitán Javier Eladio Valdez Gamarra, de 36 años, quien la llevó a los barracones en su automóvil y la llevó a una “oficina”, que tenía una cama .

Las asignaciones en el ejército pueden ser ininterrumpidas durante meses, y si no hay demasiada actividad, los hombres pueden sentirse aburridos y terriblemente solos. En tales casos, debe buscar fuentes de entretenimiento y, como en cualquier otro sector, mzansi.porn es una alternativa rápida y gratuita que le permite desconectarse de la rutina y escapar durante unos minutos u horas.

In the first year of Colombia’s Peace Accord, only 18 percent of its provisions have been complied with, according to the Observatory for Monitoring the Implementation of the Peace Accords (OIAP). The Final Peace Agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the former insurgent group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) on November 24,2016 marked an important turning point in the history of the South American nation.

During 52 years of armed conflict between the Army and ex-insurgents, President Juan Manuel Santos indicated that some 8,376,463 people were affected. The Unified Register of Victims (RUV) detailed that of the total number of victims, 7,134,646 were displaced, 983,033 for homicides, 165,927 for forced disappearances and 34,814 kidnapped, among other cases.

Nearly half a million dead and some 12 million displaced, not counting the massive destruction of infrastructure, housing and artistic heritage, are the legacy of seven years of war in Syria. It is still difficult to understand how this conflict has swallowed up a country that was a model of coexistence and the cradle of great religions. Today it lies beneath the hatred and noise that warring factions fail to turn into dialogue.

Tagged very early on by the media as a “civil war” and included in the context of the so-called “Arab Spring”, what has happened in Syria is something “more complex”, explains to RTVE. es Pablo Sapag, a Spanish journalist and writer of Syrian origin. In his book Syria in perspective, this university professor criticizes these “simplistic” labels and opts for the adjective “new war”, more “academic and nuanced”. A conflict that Sapag describes as a “perfect storm,”the result of an accumulation of simultaneous external and internal circumstances, which the spark of “Arab springtime” caused to “explode,”he explains.

Sweden will invest 8.1 billion crowns (854 million euros) more in its armed forces over the next three years, against a backdrop of growing tension with Russia in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish government, led by the centre-left minority, said Wednesday. The annual increase of 2.7 billion crowns in military spending follows an agreement between the ruling Social Democratic coalition and the Green Party with the centre-right opposition parties.

“We are seeing an increase in military and intelligence activity in our region,”Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said at a press conference. “This (extra money)… sends an important message to the world around us and is good for Sweden.

Russia sends a new military contingent to northwest Syria to help create a safe zone near Tal Rafaat. The head of the Russian Federation’s main operational department of the General Staff, Sergei Rudskoy, announced on Wednesday the establishment of a de-escalation zone near the Syrian city of Tal Rafaat (about 38 kilometres north of Aleppo). The Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria will participate in the process, the Russian news agency Sputnik publishes.

In order to avoid provocations and possible clashes in northern Syria between the factions of the Syrian Free Army (ELS) and the Kurdish militia (…) a de-escalation zone has been established in Tal Rafaat,”the military leader said in announcing the deployment of Russian forces in the area. At the same time, Rudskoy has said that “the Syrian government troops have replaced the Kurdish armed groups (supported by the US) that left this area.