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| By: Azalea Robles | |
is the largest burial of victims of a conflict that has news on the continent. Would be moved to the Nazi Holocaust or the barbarity of Pol Pot in Cambodia to find something of this dimension.
"After the cemetery of La Macarena, 200 km. Of Bogotá, thousands of bodies were buried without a name"
The lawyer Jairo Ramirez is the secretary of the Standing Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Colombia and accompanied A delegation of British parliamentarians to place a few weeks ago when he began to discover the magnitude of the pit of La Macarena. "What we saw was frightening," he told public. "Countless bodies, and surface plates hundreds of white wood with the inscription NN and dates from 2005 to today." Missing
Ramirez adds: "The commander of Army told us that they were guerrillas killed in combat, but the people of the region tells of many community leaders, farmers and community advocates who disappeared without trace. "
While the Prosecutor announced investigations" from March " after legislative and presidential elections, a parliamentary delegation composed of Jordi Pedret English (PSOE), Inés Sabanés (IU), Francesc Canet (ERC), Joan-Josep Nuet (IC-EU), Carles Campuzano (CiU), Mikel Basabe (Aralar) and Marian Smith (Eivissa pel Canvi) arrived yesterday in Colombia to study the case and make a report to Congress and the Parliament. The situation of women as the first victim of conflict and the union (in 2009 alone were killed 41) also focus their work in different areas of the country.
More than a thousand graves in the country
The horror of La Macarena has focused attention on the existence of over a thousand mass graves with unidentified bodies in Colombia. Until late last year, examiners had counted some 2,500 corpses, which had been identified about 600 and deliver the bodies to their families.
The location of these underground cemeteries has been possible thanks to the statements on free version of the middle of supposedly demobilized paramilitaries and welcomed the controversial Justice and Peace Law that guarantees a symbolic sentence in exchange for the confession of their crimes.
The last of these statements was that of John Jairo Renteria, also known as bitumen, who has just revealed to the prosecutor and victims' relatives that he and his followers buried "at least 800 people" in the "Villa Sandra, in Puerto Asis, Putumayo region. "We had to dismember people. All in the AUC had to learn it and often took people alive," the paramilitary leader has confessed to the prosecutor of Justice and Peace.
"The government does not investigate"
Alfredo Molano. Sociologist and writer
Alfredo Molano, one of Colombia's most influential columnists, has toured the country as a chronicler of violence, which earned him exile to escape threats of military and paramilitary.
What is the situation of the graves in Colombia?
itself Attorney General's Office speaks of 25,000 "disappeared", that somewhere must be. There are huge underground cemeteries in Colombia. Some people deleted. You may also have done away with many remains as in the Nazi crematoria.
Are graves have to do with called 'false positives?
Yes, all this may be related to the "false positive" [Colombian civilians killed to that described itself as "killed in action".] The army buried underground. Many of them will be found in these mass graves.
What might be the magnitude of the findings of mass?
Terrible. Neither in the fifties was in Colombia as brutally as shown in these actions of the paramilitaries, but the government has no willingness to investigate thoroughly, and will only bring back some graves. In addition, the deadlines are very long and difficult techniques for the identification, chemical and DNA tests are enormous.
For sociologist Alfredo Molano and written
Source: Amnesty International-Chile / Público.es
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