Abstract

TOBAR TORRES, Jenner Alonso. Political Violence and Dirty War in Colombia. Remembrance of a Victim of the Colombian Conflict in Relation to the Havana Negotiations. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.38, pp.9-22. ISSN 0122-5197.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.mys19-38.vpgs.

Violence as a political tool has been a constant in the Colombian internal conflict for more than 25 years, when the paramilitary phenomenon began a dramatic rise that later led it to coopt a considerable part of the institutions in the early twenty-first century. Paramilitarism, drug trafficking and guerrillas have generated hundreds of thousands of victims in Colombia. Nowadays, when the Colombian state advances the peace negotiations with the main guerrilla group, the victims' rights create tension between those who demand their full implementation and those who consider that in transitional justice contexts there are possibilities for balancing between the victims' rights and the existence of a legal framework that could enable negotiating the end to the conflict. In this context, the story of Gloria Mancilla, one of the victims of the conflict, is presented, as well as her demands for truth and justice in the ongoing peace negotiations.

Keywords : political violence; paramilitarism; victims' rights; Colombian peace process.

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