Relatives of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia This Saturday in Madrid they remembered their loved ones and discussed the possible ways to achieve peace definitively in the country.
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The meeting took place within the framework of the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victimsheld on April 9, and had as its axis a conversation under the title ‘Journey, dialogue for the peace building‘.
During the colloquium, organized by the Embassy of Colombia, the Consulate General of Colombia in Spain and the collective ‘Colombia Nos Une’, representatives of victims of the conflict armed and experts in peace and repair stressed the importance of cultivating “bonds of solidarity and social recognition as a symbolic measure of satisfaction.”
The speakers They denounced the disconnection that exists between victims abroad and reparation measures established by the government of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and urged their compatriots abroad to participate in Colombian political life.
To this end, the president of the Migracode association, Julián Castrillón, insisted on the “need” to “create and strengthen transnational networks” of displaced outside Colombiaas well as the “responsibility” of the Colombian government to properly restore them.
Rodrigo Pinzón, Consul General of Colombia in Madrid and present at the event, highlighted the commitment of the Colombian government with “total peace” and focused attention on the victims.
“You are the protagonists of this historical story. And the important thing about that story is that it never happens again,” he added.
Nearly 400,000 people They had to leave Colombia because of the armed conflict between 2000 and 2012, according to UNHCR.
This is a figure much higher than that managed by the Colombian government, whose official records only record a little more than 50,000 victims abroad.
