Abstract

SUAREZ PINZON, Ivonne et al. VOICES AGAINST SILENCE, MEMORY AGAINST FORGETTING LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF 25 VICTIMS OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT BASED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CAFE MADRID BUCARAMANGA. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.2, pp.493-519. ISSN 0122-2066.

Colombia has been suffering an armed conflict since five decades ago. This paper is focused in giving a voice to the victims, in giving them courage to defeat fear, to heal wounds and to find out their truth. We built and analyzed, in cooperative way, the history of the life of 25 victims of forced displacement, they're located in Café Madrid, Bucaramanga. They understood that his narrative helps them to build a reasoned memory, to break the silence, to evidence the apathy or acquiescence from society and state. They also contribute to reach justice, integral reparation, guarantee of nonrepetition and reconciliation towards a long and stable peace This research has a theoretical and methodological approach of oral history, biographical approach and grounded theory. Also there's a category analysis of internal armed conflict, forced displacement, gender violence, social networks and memory. Within the stories are spotted actors in conflict, their interests, their behaviors, their links with the establishment, their strategies in order to achieve control of the people and territories, the ways for destroying individual and collective life projects, the winding roads from their homes to their current locations and their losses along the way. We realized the need of Resignify the Café Madrid Train Station in order to, as a reparation, it become a collective memory place.

Keywords : History of life; oral history; grounded theory; reasoned memory; social networks; gender violence.

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