Militias are coercing, bribing and kidnapping young people in remote areas to be fighters, drug sellers, informants or sex slaves Militias are coercing, bribing and kidnapping young people in remote areas to be fighters, drug sellers, informants or sex slaves I n spring last year, Ana’s* friends began to disappear. Members of an armed group had begun recruiting children in her village in Colombia’s north-west region of Norte de Santander, promising them food, money, mobile phones and