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Bojayá one decade on
Photo by Jesús Abad Colorado
10 years…
May 2, 2012 is the 10th anniversary of the brutal war crime that broke into pieces the story of the town of Bellavista, in the municipality of Bojayá in the Medio Atrato region. There is nothing to celebrate, but a lot to remember and to propose for the future. War and exclusion have continued in the Medio Atrato region and as Jesús Flórez explains on this page, in this region of bitter Colombia truth and justice have disappeared.
We offer this online space as a vital contribution to memory and to show solidarity with the Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities in Bojayá and throughout the Medio Atrato region. The Claretian University Foundation (Fucla), the Diocese of Quibdó and Human Rights Everywhere (HREV), have coordinated this effort, however it is a site in permanent construction. We did not want to build a memorial to the victims, but rather a place of dignity, looking towards the future.
On this website you will find many of the documents, studies and reports related to the war crime in Bojayá. You will also find some of the key images from the last 10 years, many of the video documentaries that have been produced and analysis of the past, present and future. Feel free to participate, to offer your opinions, to provide information for the site.
We shall inform you of the events surrounding the tenth anniversary of the war crime in Bojayá and will continue to supply information for active memory and proposals so that justice with dignity reaches this region which has been so severely hit by centuries-old abandonment and by the war since 1997.
For further information visit BOJAYÁ ONE DECADE ON
