The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
The Silent Wound
26 minutes Posted May 9, 2017 at 6:00 am.
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During Colombia’s 53-year internal conflict, around 15,000 military veterans have lived through their own bodies the heart-breaking consequences of a barbaric war. But a considerable part of that group has also sacrificed their masculinity by suffering different forms of genital or urinary trauma. Natalia Guerrero discovers the profound physical and physiological effect genital injuries can have for generations of Colombian soldiers.