The event, which was held within the framework of the Week for Peace, was led by the mayor of Pasto and the territorial director of the Victims Unit in Nariño.

In development of the Week for Peace, the Victims Unit accompanied the activities programmed on the Day of Forgiveness and Reconciliation, through conversations that sought to generate spaces for dialogue, reflection and participation.

The opening ceremony was led by the Mayor of Pasto, Germán Chamorro, the territorial director of the Victims Unit in Nariño, William Pinzón Fernández, the representative of the Table for the Effective Participation of the Victims of Pasto, Armando Villota and the vice-rector from the Universidad Nariño, Martha Sofía González.

Armando Villota, representative of the Table, indicated that "forgiveness is a process that we must begin to put into practice, it is the act that starts from knowing the truth and reconciliation is a way of creating agreements that allow us to build a better reality".

For his part, the director of the Victims Unit in Nariño said that “as an entity we accompany the different acts; We always work hand in hand with the victim population from whom we learn every day, of their strength, capacity to forgive, resistance and resilience to carry out their life projects”.

Likewise, German Chamorro, president of the capital of Nariño, added that “the invitation and the call is to repent, ask for forgiveness, to do acts of reconciliation; We can have different ideologies, but we have respect, that we all build territorial peace, equity, take the State where it has never been”.

Likewise, German Chamorro, Mayor of Pasto, added that “the invitation and the call is to repent, ask for forgiveness, to do acts of reconciliation; We can have different ideologies, but we have

As part of the commemoration, the Image and Memory Conversation was also held, by Jesús Abad Colorado, a renowned Colombian photojournalist.

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