The Presidential Adviser for Stabilization, Emilio Archila, sent a message of solidarity about the fact that this April 9 marks the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with the victims. The official pointed out that the voice of the victims must be heard to prevent their history from repeating itself.
“We heard the victims in their return plans, in the collective reparations, when we attend to development plans with a territorial approach as a pillar of reconciliation. In these three modalities, we not only reach the communities, but we transform them in the way they have indicated that they want their community to develop,” said Archila.
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The counselor indicated that from the Government they work so that, “not only solve the issues that victimized thembut to give them the conditions that they have asked us for so that it never happens again and they can develop their lives from now on”.
Meanwhile, Father Francisco de Roux, president of the Truth Commission, sent a message in which he recalled that it was on April 9, 1948, when Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated and the victimization of the men and women who followed him began. “That’s why we celebrate ‘Victims’ Day,’ the anniversary of that date, which is the cumulative number of at least ten million people who bear this enormous suffering,” he said.
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In this sense, he stated, “in the Commission we not only want to express our solidarity (…) we also want peacethat we want the State to make a determination to launch itself towards peace and that the groups that are at war accept this call, because Colombians everywhere want that one day in Colombia no one is killed for their political ideas or some other reason”.
He also asked that “all of us in Colombia feel the wound of this country and transform this wounded nation into a nation full of future for children, in a place where we trust each other, respecting our various ethnic positions, of gender, politics, of conceptions of life, and that in dialogue and trust we build a different country, that is the future of the children and grandchildren of all of you, dear victims of Colombia”.
