Victims ‘are very happy’ with Colombia justice deal
Victims ‘are very happy’ with Colombia justice deal
Posted by Rose Lander on Sep 24, 2015
Colombian victims’ organization said that victims “are very happy” with Wednesday’s deal on transitional justice between the government and FARC rebels.
The justice deal includes the creation of a court which will investigate and sentence those found guilty of murder, torture, kidnapping and sexual violence committed during Colombia’s decades long armed conflict. Those found guilty will have to pay reparations to the victims.
Teresita Gaviria, who co-founded the Association for the Paths of Hope Mothers of the Candelaria in 1999 after her 15-year-old son was forcibly disappeared, was visibly content. “Peace is about to arrive,” the victims’ representative said optimistically.
Similar to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, the Mothers of the Candelaria meet weekly outside the Church of Our Lady of la Candelaria in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, to show photos of their missing loved ones and demand to know what happened to them, where they are and whether they are alive or dead.
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