by Irene Escudero
Bogotá, Apr 9 (EFE).- The Colombia conflict victims have determined to use a needle and thread to tell their reports and rally across the institutions that handle collective reminiscence of the a long time-long battle.
On Friday when the nation followed the annual team spirit day, truth commission covered its building with a big embroidered fabric, showing the patterns and contours of the victims' life.
There changed into an image of a lady being beaten earlier than the blameless gaze of her toddlers and the names of murdered girls, in conjunction with motifs like trees and birds embroidered on the drapes displayed on the facade of the advanced in Bogotá.
The enormous drape spread across 540 square meters (5,812 rectangular toes) of yellow, eco-friendly, pink, blue fabrics embroidered with colors and stitches indicates the nuances of every truth, "lots of kilometers of resistance" and "a framework that ladies are constructing with our weaving," the members defined in a digital experience.
"We are looking to make the collective sense of truth seen as a public first rate and as a probability of a rustic where there's room for all people," observed Claudia Girón, of Kilometers of life and memory, one of the most pioneers of the theory that began in 2019.
"it's like talking with the cloth, the needle and the thread; it is like writing a publication however we do it from colorings," the contributors noted.
In those conversations, within the act of sewing to tell studies, questions arose, and knots had been formed, of uncomfortable concerns that came up inside those that have suffered compelled displacement, sexual violence, seen their family members disappear or be killed, or skilled drive of a kidnapping.
It has been a non-linear task, which has involved processes of unstitching and "unraveling identities which are harmful to society as a whole" to create a less than perfect product, with roughness and patches that metaphors that certainty with edges that don't deny the pain.
"when we sew, in the course of the fabrics, we are producing new languages ??and new complaints," talked about Virgelina Chará, an Afro-Colombian chief from the southwest branch of Cauca, who suffered violence and displacement from a young age.
aside from the seamstresses, mothers, aunts, grandmothers, and daughters who traditionally knit have labored during this sewing technique, in addition to military personnel, ex-opponents, and loved ones of the disappeared.
The aim became to create a superb drape that includes a testimony, which is what the truth commission intends in its public hearings, and with the record that it has to deliver as a abstract of these years of conversations between victims and perpetrators.
"We wish to inform you today that we're absolutely with you, that your pain is our pain and your truth is our actuality," the president of the fee, the Jesuit priest, Francisco de Roux, told the victims.
The concept of ??Friday's experience become additionally to rally around the fact fee, an entity that emerged from the peace agreement that has listened to the own experiences of more than 15,000 victims and collective bills of the conflict and that repeatedly has drawn criticism from the government and other critics.
There are 9,113,500 victims (just about 18 p.c of the population) in Colombia, according to the exciting Victims Registry (RUV), together with 5 million displaced americans, almost 12,000 victims of anti-personnel mines, and at the least 80,000 forced disappearances.
additionally, 2,107 people had been kidnapped by the previous FARC rebel group between 1993 and 2012, for which the special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) charged the former leaders of that guerrilla, and there have been 6,402 "false positives", victims of extrajudicial executions by way of the military, also investigated via that courtroom. EFE
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