Colombia - Page loaded 21.11.2008 06:52:50 COT

A joint chronicle on the 6-M

March for the victims of violence in Colombia, 6 March By: Germán A. Quimbayo

20 March 2008 18:34 COT

Este artículo está disponible en ESPAÑOL

Carolina Giraldo contributed with this article

This morning I woke up with the intention to join my love to go to this march, because I had several reasons for not attending the 4 February march, among them work and other personal issues. From the latter, time said I was right (because of the second re-election campaign and the exacerbated, absurd nationalism), because despite the 4-F march was massive and maybe spontaneous, it responded to the then current situation (not for that legitimate in its contempt against the disgusting FARC) and it was taken advantage from by the government and its friends quite well. That was more than predictable because of the media and official support it received.

[continued…]

March for the victims of violence in Colombia, 6 March | Comments (1)

The victims of violence in Colombia also exist

March for the victims of violence in Colombia, 6 March By: Marsares

19 March 2008 11:58 COT

Este artículo está disponible en ESPAÑOL

* Photos by Germán Quimbayo and Carolina Giraldo / Special for equinoXio

It was a march quite different from the one on 4 February. Here, it was not the anger only against one armed organization, but against all the violence which took this country over, against the lack of memory, against indifference, against impunity, against corruption, against anything which has made Colombia a worldwide example of violence.

Here there was no single slogan. There were a lot of them, as many as the suffering of years, as many as the humiliations received by the victims every time they ask for justice and redress, a crowd messed with chaotic but true slogans, because today the ones who have suffered the pain first-hand and the ones who do not want the horror of the premeditated, cruel, coward death have marched…

[continued…]

March for the victims of violence in Colombia, 6 March | Comments (1)