We deserve peace with an integral justice, We will break the cycle of repetition of violence
Our communities that have been victim to threats, torture, assassinations, disappearances, judicial set ups, forced displacements, dispossession of lands, damage to forests, waters and animals and also serious breaches of humanitarian law, we invite the whole country, without exclusion, to cease the yearning to continue the war and to unite in the peace that born of justice.
We have experienced procrastination, exclusion, lies and bureaucracy in the PDTs and in the PNIS, denial of seats for victims, and governments after governments that fail to meet our demands in the field of protection, housing, health, food, land and environment.
The breaches of the Colón Theatre Agreement with the FARC are a reality. Progress is fading with ineffective implementation for people demobilized. We have seen the traps in the talks with ELN and an obstruction to what might have been a healthy and legal submission of the AGCs.
And still, we learn and we are convinced that peace exists, it is founded and only upheld in society. And our society has begun to wake up and has a challenge to continue consolidating. We are saddened by the new expression of Guerrilla which we realized through a video in the early hours of yesterday, we can understand that it is born of its frustration and many fears. We understand its decision and also the reaction of many people calling for war, which is a mistake.
We say: No more war! Although this is a setback in the search to a country at peace, our communities and processes will insist on dialogue and peace with justice, and far from authoritarianism, to ignore what was agreed and to decree alterations to end the JEP and the CEV, among others.
The new guerrilla group proposes that it will continue in the search for peace, and that in the midst of its rebel exercise, which is constituted as a possible exit, amidst its rebel exercise and within Guerrilla sphere .And it’s the same way with thousands of armed people.
The right to peace is alive, the society of peace is alive. The purpose of comprehensive and complete peace is in process. Peace is already signed; peace of six points with the ELN is to continue working; peace with judicial submission is to be reopened. Everything requires inclusion and imagination and above all generosity for peace to be settled upon justice and freedoms.
Our challenge is to break the repetitive cycles of violence, and the President has in his hands the possibility of avoiding this eternal reproduction, calling on the country to build peace leaving aside the authoritarian mentality.
We hope President Duque untie blind love for violence. We, the victims of the territories converging with sectors of peace, human rights, environmentalists, businessmen, churches, we will continue to affirm the right to an unarmed society, to a peace based on the process of socio-environmental and gender justice policies.
We invite you to recognize at this time where has been announced the emergence of a new armed uprising to persist in peace, to persist in building bridges and imaginative mechanisms of dialogue with them and with those of the old armed political conflicts, and other types of violence to resolve and avoid more victims, more murders, tortures, disappeared, forced displacements and uprooted.
With concern and also with hope,
Carefully:
-Autodetermination Communities, Life, Dignity, CAVIDA, Cacarica Collective Territory, (Chocó).
-Association of Displaced Women of Ríosucio, CLAMORES, (Chocó).
-Jiguamiandó Humanitarian Zones and Biodiversity Zones (Chocó)
Cabildo Mayor Embera de Resguardo Urada Jiguamiando, CAMERUJ, (Chocó).
-Wounaan Community of the Pichimá River Resguardo Ravine Displaced in Docordó, Litoral San Juan, (Chocó).
-Wounaan indigenous Zone of juin Phu Buur, Cacarica, (Chocó).
-Environmental Zone SO BIA DRUA, Jiguamiandó, (Chocó).
Cabildo Mayor Embera de Resguardo Urada Jiguamiando, CAMERUJ, (Chocó).
-Wounaan Community of the Pichimá River Resguardo Quebrada displaced in Docordó, Litoral San Juan, (Chocó).
-Wounaan Indigenous Zone of juin Phu Buur, Cacarica, (Chocó).
-Environmental Zone SO BIA DRUA, Jiguamiandó, (Chocó).
-La Yulina Biodiversity Zone, Curbaradó Collective Territory, (Chocó). Cabildo Mayor Embera de Resguardo Urada Jiguamiando, CAMERUJ, (Chocó).
-Wounaan Community of the Pichimá River Resguardo Quebrada displaced in Docordó, Litoral San Juan, (Chocó).
-Wounaan indigenous reserve of juin Phu Buur, Cacarica, (Chocó).
-Environmental Zone SO BIA DRUA, Jiguamiandó, (Chocó).
-La Yulina Biodiversity Zone, Curbaradó Collective Territory, (Chocó).
-El Retorno Biodiversity Zone, Collective Territory of Pedeguita y mancilla, (Chocó).
-La Esperanza Biodiversity Area, Polo Family, Collective Territory of Pedeguita and mancilla, (Chocó).
-Mary Hernandez Biodiversity Area, Collective Territory of Pedeguita y mancilla, (Chocó).
-My land (Mi Tierra) Biodiversity Area, Pedeguita and Manilla Collective Territory, (Chocó).
-Area of Biodiversity Andalusia, Collective Territory of Curbaradó, (Chocó).
-Caracolí Biodiversity Zone, Curbaradó Collective Territory, (Chocó).
-La Madre Union Biodiversity Area, Collective Territory of La Larga Tumaradó, (Chocó).
Camellian Humanitarian Zone, Collective Territory of Curbaradó, (Chocó).
-Costa Azul Humanitarian Zone, Curbaradó Collective Territory, (Chocó).
-Humanitarian Zone Andalusia, Collective Territory of Curbaradó, (Chocó).
-Association of Women Displaced from Meta, ASOMUDEM.
-Association of Women Victims United for Peace, (AMVUPAZ), La Uribe, and (Meta).
-Association of victims of the conflict united by peace, distance, (Meta).
-Civil Community of Life and Peace – CIVIPAZ, El Castillo, (Meta).
-Network of Women of Vistahermosa, (Meta).
-Network of Women vereda la Y, Puerto Rico, (Meta).
-Aguirre family, victim of massacre of Rivera councillors, (Huila).
-ADISPA as representative organization of the 24 Communities of the Peasant Reserve Zone Amazon Pearl (Putumayo):
-Community of Agualongo.
-Community of Lower Cuembí.
-Community of Lower Lorenzo.
-Community of Lower Mansoyá.
-Community of Baldío
– Community of Belén.
– Community of Bocana de Cuembí.
-Community of Buen Samaritano.
-Community of Camios.
-The community of Angosturas.
-Community of Chufiyá.
-Community of Comandante.
-Community of Frontera.
-Community of Guadalupe.
-Community of Juvenil.
– Community of La Alea.
-Community of La Española.
-Community of La Piña.
-Community of La Rosa.
-Community of Puerto Playa.
-Community of San Salvador.
-Community of Sevilla.
-Community of Toaya.
-Community of Zamora.
-Central Women’s Committee of the Association for Sustainable Integral Development -ADISPA- “My Name is Amazon Pearl Woman” MEMPA, (Putumayo).
-Youth Roots of Dignity Amazon Pearl – JURADIPA, (Putumayo).
-Integral cooperative of women and men agricultural entrepreneurs victims of the armed conflict in the municipality of Trujillo, CIMEVAT, (Valle del Cauca).
-Agroecological Association Esther Cayapu, ASOESCA, La Sonora, Trujillo (Valle del Cauca).
-Association of Agricultural Families with land restored in Colombia, AFAREC, La Sonora, Trujillo, (Valle del Cauca).
Community Council of cabeceras, Bajo San Juan, (Valle del Cauca).
-Community Council La Esperanza, Buenaventura, (Valle del Cauca).
-Humanitarian Zone neighborhood La playita, Buenaventura, (Valle del Cauca).
-Families victims kidnapping and murder deputies, (Valle del Cauca).
-Humanitarian Zone Santa Rosa de Guayacá, Calima, (Valle del Cauca).
-Humanitarian and biodiverse Zone Unión Agua Clara (Valle del Cauca).
-Humanitarian Zone and biodiverse Union San Juan de Puerto Pizario. Litoral San Juan, (Valle del Cauca).
-Indigenous Zone of Puerto Guadualito, Puerto Pizario, Litoral San Juan, (Valle del Cauca).
-Zone ancient town Wounaan Córdoba, Buenaventura, (Valle del Cauca).