Camilo González Posso
Presidente of Indepaz
Humanitarian themes accompany wars everywhere, if with blood and tears. But almost always with tears of the victims, with a long bereavement amongst their relatives, neighbors or associates, and an astounding indifference by those who have entered the vertigo of the confrontation or the market of violence. For those victimized, the succession of macabre events turn them into "collateral effects", executed by a disguised enemy, inevitable costs or 'accompanying coins' in the military budgets.
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Social leaders speak out about the negotiations with the self-defense groups
A group of popular social leaders, summoned by Planeta Paz (Planet Peace) in the so-called Group of Peace, has been developing a systematic reflection on a social strategy which would allow the opinion of popular, social leaders, with respect to the political negotiation of the social and armed Colombian conflict, to be heard.
The government negotiations with the paramilitary or self-defense groups have been the subject of discussion and of political polarization with multiple implications in the scope of national life. Some believe that the Colombian state must generate the policies and actions for the dissolution of the paramilitary groups, given its responsibility, which even the same self-defense leaders recognize. This perspective would have the disadvantage of abandoning the specific vision of those who are in the leadership of the state, which supports a solution that may or may not be acceptable to the whole of society, as happened with the proposals for the Alternative Penal (Punishment) Law.
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