Open letter, Colombia: "Another cry for independence in peace, with social and environmental justice"

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We continue to build peace in the territories

To the JEP, the CEV, the military, businessmen, the "bancada de paz", the ELN and other armed groups:

Today, 20 July, we'd like to say thank you to those who have given their best in the health service; to those who have lost their acquaintances to the pandemic, we offer our our solidarity. Today we remember a cry. A cry that is still necessary. A cry that continues to be drowned out. That cry is in the leaders who have been killed since the signing of the Peace Accords, there are now more than 500 of them and the number is approaching 1000. The lives of some of the peace signatories have also been cut short, these are now approaching 250, as well as some of their relatives.

They are the still unanswered cries of the more than 80,000 people who disappeared during the war that lasted more than 60 years, and is still not over. They are the thousands upon thousands of people who have been disappeared by the criminal structures of the State. They are the people who were kidnapped, detained or deprived of their freedom by the guerrillas - and whose whereabouts remain unknown. They are the millions of displaced people, of uprooted people, who abandoned their land and were dispossessed. They are the more than 220,000 dead from socio-political violence.

Read the full letter from the Inter-Church Commission of Justice and Peace here (Spanish only).