The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has posted on social media:
“At the end of February, we accompanied the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace to the 17th Memorial Meeting ‘For Life and Territorial Peace’, commemorating the 29th anniversary of Operation Genesis (24–27 February 1997).
The activities took place in Turbo—the place where the displaced communities arrived—and at the Community Council of the Cacarica River Basin in Bijao, where the attack began.
During these days, a moving tribute was paid to Marino López Mena, who was murdered on 27 February 1997. In his memory, a commemorative plaque was installed in the community.
Civil society organisations such as CAVIDA, CLAMORES and the Somos Génesis Network took part in the meeting, and representatives from various state bodies, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ombudsman’s Office, were in attendance.
The community and the organisations called for the implementation of the measures set out in the judgment of 20 November 2013 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Series C, No. 270), to which the state has yet to respond.
We also accompanied the CIJyP on tours of the Curbaradó and Jiguamiandó Humanitarian and Biodiversity Zones.
#Memory #Truth #Justice #Reparation #TerritorialPeace”
Accompaniment
Peace Brigades International began accompanying the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission in 1994.
