The actions of satisfaction and rehabilitation that will be implemented in this subject of collective reparation, are focused on the recovery of social practices lost due to the armed conflict, and the elaboration of collective duels through a tribute and symbolic act in memory of the 18 victims of El Aracatazo massacre, which occurred on August 12, 1995

In the Chigorodó Covered Coliseum, next Monday, August 12, different cultural, artistic, symbolic activities, and the delivery of sports facilities will be carried out, in compliance with the collective reparation plan of El Bosque neighborhood.

These activities, arranged with the impulse committee, will begin at 8 in the morning and the agenda includes a symbolic act in memory of victims of El Aracatazo as a measure of satisfaction, psychosocial recovery and collective elaboration of the duel. It should be clarified that El Aracatazo was a public establishment in which a violent incursion occurred that left 18 people dead in August 1995.

The community, in addition, will receive sports endowments that will allow them to resume the soccer championships, among other social practices, which linked them as a group, which were forced to leave for many years because of the armed conflict.

El Bosque neighborhood was, as the name implies, a forest, and became inhabited by banana workers, street vendors, workers and informal traders.

The Unit initiated this process of collective reparation through the first approaches in 2014, in response to the events that occurred on August 12, 1995.

“We will be from the Unit accompanying this community of El Bosque, which advances in the implementation of the concerted measures in the collective reparation plan, and through the delivery of these sports implements, it is expected that young people will become increasingly involved in the process, that they contribute to the reconstruction of social fabric and this is constituted as a preventive action in the face of illicit recruitment”, said Elizabeth Granada Ríos, director of the Unit for the Urabá-Darién Victims.

(End/CYT/CMC)