The survivors of conflict ratified the importance of their social inclusion to overcome the harms of conflict and made proposals to promote their reparation.

The victims in Antioquia demonstrated that they are brave survivors who day after day seek to improve themselves and influence the policies for the restoration of their rights and the policies to improve their attention and reparation.

On the occasion of the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims this April 9, the main organizations representing the survivors of armed conflict participated in the commemorative events that began with a Mass in La Candelaria church and then a march through their rights to get to the Casa de la Memoria museum.

There was a symbolic act in homage to resilience and a discussion on the rights of victims against the legal framework and proposals for adjustments such as the extension of  Victims Law.

For Anaydalit Delgado, victim of the FARC and coordinator of the Table of Participation of Victims of Medellin, "it is a very important commemoration because we have been healing, building and demanding (rights), but we also want that solidarity also to have to do with reparations, in memory and inclusion in the National Development Plan".

The leader indicated that, in the incidence that "we did in the Senate for this plan, we managed to raise the goal to compensate 510 thousand victims (as a measure of reparation). And today we want to demand that the goal reach one million victims compensated during the four-year period of this Government".

Until February of this year, the Victims' Unit has provided economic compensation to 965,383 survivors of armed conflict in Colombia, with an investment of 5.97 trillion pesos.

For her part, Luz Amparo Mejía, president of the organization Mothers of the Candelaria-Founding Line, acknowledged that this is a date that serves to "solidarity and give memory to the victims of conflict, as our relatives killed and disappeared. Today we have accompaniment from institutions such as the Victims Unit to remember and acts of non-repetition so that future generations do not have to suffer what we regret today. "

Remembrance commemoration

The director of Unit in Antioquia, Wilson Cordoba Mena, stressed that "the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims is commemorated since 2012 as a measure of satisfaction of comprehensive reparation that contributes to the dignification of victims and also repair the moral and emotional damage that cannot be repaired with anything material ".

He also highlighted that the Victims' Unit has invested in Colombia 11 trillion pesos, of which 2.6 trillion pesos in Antioquia, for the compensation of more than 230 thousand survivors, as well as humanitarian aid, social and community infrastructure projects, psychosocial attention and collective reparations".

In coordination with the tables of municipal victims, the Antioquia Governor's Office, mayorships and representative offices, the Unit supported the logistics of the commemorative activities in the priority municipalities such as Medellín, Vigía del Fuerte, Remedios, Segovia and Machuca tonwship, with symbolic acts, discussions on the achievements and challenges of attention, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition of victimizing acts. In addition, a new service point was inaugurated in Medellin in the Caunces sector to improve service in this city.