PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA at assembly with ADESAN, ASOMEPABA, AMUSUNASB and municipalities
The Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (CAHUCOPANA) has posted on social media:
“Barrancabermeja, Santander
Peace is built with communities!
We unite in a space for dialogue and coming together for the real transformation of Northeastern Antioquia and South Bolivar.
We met in an Intermunicipal Assembly between the Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (CAHUCOPANA), the Association of Displaced Victims of the Armed Conflict of Santa Rosa (ADESAN), the Association Women Entrepreneurs and Productive Women (ASOMEPABA), the Association of Women in Overcoming Northeast Antioquia and South Bolívar (AMUSUNASB) with the active participation of the three targeted municipalities: Santa Rosa, Remedios and Segovia.
This is a historic moment to listen to each other, propose and walk together towards a territory with social justice, dignity and peace.
Transformation is born from the territory!
With funding and support from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia.”
Humanitarian crisis
On April 25, CAHUCOPANA also posted on X: “Remedios | ALERT At 10:00 am, two members of the Gulf Clan threw an explosive device at the @PoliciaColombia in the municipality of @MpioRemedios. We have long warned about the humanitarian crisis without any solution to the problem SOS.”
They added: “#HumanitarianCrisis #RemediosAntioquia #ClanDelGolfo Also, just a few days ago, on Sunday, April 20, another hitman attacked a @PoliciaColombia in @MpioRemedios, injuring two young people who were passing by. Urgent measures are needed!”
The call for a “participatory and transformative peace”
Earlier this month, CAHUCOPANA was one of “more than 150 social organizations that called for the construction of a participatory and transformative peace.”
That statement highlights:
“We are convinced that a political solution to the various conflicts and armed violence is possible – and above all necessary. Because despite the different agreements between the State and armed organizations, the war persists.
The historical armed conflict that emerged in the 60s with the ELN [National Liberation Army] persists. A new conflict has been configured with the armed structures that emerged after the agreements with the FARC-EP [Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army] in 2016. We are experiencing the emergence of new and dissimilar criminal structures that dispute political and territorial power.
Paramilitarism remains a challenge to be solved if we want to overcome the armed conflict. After the 2006 agreements with the AUC [United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia], the paramilitary strategy multiplied in various techniques of urban and rural territorial social control. The policy of dismantling ‘groups inherited from paramilitarism’ was never implemented.
The security forces continue to be tied to the doctrine of the ‘internal enemy’, despite the current government’s announcements of a ‘human security’ approach. The expansion of the counterinsurgency strategy against social actors who mobilize for their rights – especially territorial rights – is directly associated with this doctrine. The lack of commitment of the security forces to peace is expressed in their calculated inaction, which stimulates tensions and confrontations between irregular armed groups of various kinds.
We invite Colombian society to unite and actively participate in this Social Movement for Peace, an autonomous space, for everyone. So that together with the irregular armed actors and the State, we focus on building an agenda of profound transformations that lay the foundations for a new social, economic and political scenario for the country.”
The full statement can be read at Social Movement for Peace – it belongs to everyone (posted by the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective/CAJAR).
This statement was also signed by the Association for the Integral Sustainable Development of La Perla Amazonica-ADISPA (Putumayo), the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Right-CREDHOS, the Foundation Committee of Solidarity with Political Prisoners Tolima Sectional, the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes-MOVICE, and the Black Communities Process-PCN.
Accompaniment
Peace Brigades International has accompanied the Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (CAHUCOPANA) since 2013.
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