Colombia needs 301 billion pesos (about 65.3 billion dollars or 60.2 billion euros) for repair the more than 9 million victims of the armed conflict, As stated, this Monday, April 10, the director of the Unit for the Attention of Victims, Patricia Tobon.
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“We have to break our heads wondering (…) how we are going to achieve (…) more than 301 billion to counteract inequality, and this is going to require a whole intellectual effort, participation, reflection on how we do it, because we require it“, Tobón said in an interview this morning on the government radio station Colombia Today Radio.
The director of the Victims Unit is aware that in the four years of the mandate of the government of Gustavo Petro It cannot be achieved, but he indicated that his objective is “to provide decision, clear the roads, lay foundations.”
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“More than 60 years would be required to counteract the deep inequality, to comprehensively redress the victims“, claimed Tobón during an act for the week of commemoration of the victims, in which he stated that”Without a doubt, in these four years we will help to contribute to this lag, but the harsh and harsh truth is that as long as there is no laying down of arms, the number of victimization in the territories affected by the conflict will not drop.“.
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Currently, according to the registry of this organism there are 9,446,572 people registered as victims, of which nearly 7.5 million receive care. Thus, the director assured: “We are a fragmented society and we are a wounded society and from those wounds we relate to each other as Colombian men and women. The victims of the armed conflict have had to recover themselves from these wounds, they have had to organize themselves, they have had to show solidarity among themselves.“.
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And he said that in his position he has the mission of listen to that country that has had to live through the war, “to those who have suffered it because from that experience, from that voice we can build a less polarized country, a country that recognizes what the war has generated for us (…) what we have lost as a society“.
“If the victims do not advance in their reparation, if they do not advance in their dignity, the country cannot advance either“he claimed.
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EFE
