In the department of Boyacá there is a geographical distribution of diverse armed actors. While the guerrilla organizations have settled in the upper parts of the region, the paramilitary groups have settled in the flat and low areas of the Western part. As for the presence of paramilitary organizations, since 2001, the Frente Héroes de Read More
El Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – Movice Capítulo Sucre denuncia y rechaza enérgicamente el asesinato de tres hermanos en el corregimiento La Guaripa, Sucre a manos de tres encapuchados pertenecientes a la vigilancia privada del exdirector de la Caja de Compensación Familiar de Sucre (Comfasucre), William Martínez, quien no permite la Read More
Buenaventura, 28 de Enero de 2018 ¡Que la paz no ponga en riesgo la vida de los sobrevivientes de la guerra! Las organizaciones sociales y defensoras de derechos humanos, pertenecientes al Comité Interorganizacional por la defensa de los territorios ganados al mar de Buenaventura y movimiento Social Colombiano, abajo firmantes, denunciamos los hechos Read More
In 1996, when the AUC planned to expand to the Meta, the massacres of Mapiripán (July 1997) and Puerto Alvira (May 1998) occurred, according to the UNHCR diagnosis. This paramilitary bloc, commanded by Miguel Arroyave, managed to be present in most of the region with the support of alias ‘Pirata’ and ‘Camisa Negra’, of criminal Read More
La campaña Defender la libertad: asunto de tod@s, el Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos – CPDH, la Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos – FCSPP, la Fundación Fumpaz y el Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – Movice, denuncian ante la opinión pública, el hurto de información Read More
El Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – Movice Capítulo Magdalena Medio denuncia y rechaza los hostigamientos de los que han sido objeto sus integrantes como Rocío Campos, secretaria técnica del capítulo, y la falta de diligencia de la Unidad Nacional de Protección – UNP. Además, se alerta nuevamente sobre las crecientes agresiones Read More
El Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – Capítulo Bogotá denuncia los hechos de violencia de los que fue objeto Blanca Nubia Díaz, integrante y fundadora del Movice, el pasado sábado 13 de enero cerca de su casa en el sur de Bogotá. Blanca Díaz fue abordada por dos hombres que la secuestraron Read More
The arrival of oil companies in Casanare at the end of the 1980’s coincided with a strengthening of the presence of paramilitaries in the area. On one hand the so-called Autodefensas Campesinas de Casanare (ACC) extended their actions to the Boyacá department with State acquiescence, producing a countless number of systematic human rights violations. On Read More
Foto: COSPACC – Comision de DDHH CdP Yopal – Casanare, enero 16 de 2018. La Coordinadora Regional de Derechos Humanos del Movimiento Político de Masas, Social y Popular del Centro Oriente de Colombia; denuncia ante la comunidad nacional e internacional los siguientes hechos: El 11 de enero del año en curso, tropas pertenecientes al Read More
In Sucre a small number of people own the land. A great part of the political violence comes from their will to monopolize the territory by preventing the peasants from occupying it. Many peasant families in the region were victims of human rights violations and had to flee their homes, and the big landowners took Read More
In 1999, in the expansion plan of the Castaño brothers, a paramilitary group came to Nariño to form the Libertadores del Sur de las AUC bloc. Since this year and until 2004, according to reports of the Rutas del Conflicto, at least 11 massacres were perpetrated by this bloc. According to the decision of Read More
State criminality in the department of Cauca has been perpetrated through the persecution and assassinations of indigenous and rural leaders, as a response to the diverse historical movements of resistance in this region. Violent attacks were committed against rural people, indigenous, Afro-Colombian and poor urban communities often represented by unions or student or victims’ organizations, Read More
In the Eastern municipalities of Caldas, the Autodefensas del Magdalena Medio (ACMM) were present and closely linked with the dynamics that were developed in the Magdalena Medio region. The paramilitary group Muerte a los Secuestradores – MAS (Death to Kidnappers) carried out its actions in the department in the 1980’s. It is in the following Read More
Paramilitary intervention in this zone was carried out by the Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá (ACCU). In addition to acts of terror against the rural society, they violently attacked the artisanal miners resistance which was organized through different local committees linked to the Federación Agrominera del Sur de Bolívar – Fedeagromisbol. In addition to Read More
The chapter is based in Barrancabermeja (Santander). Historically, this municipality’s economic growth came from the petroleum industry, the first well having been exploited in 1916. In Barrancabermeja there is the central office of Ecopetrol, the labor union of which is one of the most renowned in the country : the Unión Sindical de Obreros (USO). Read More