Experts noted that the date remembers one of the deepest wounds of the Domestic Armed Conflict (1960-1996), a period in which thousands of citizens were uprooted from their communities or murdered for political and social reasons.
They added that seeking to honor the victims and making visible the effects of displacement and state violence after remembering the scars of involuntary human mobility and loss continue to mark the country’s present.
They emphasized that it serves as a pretext each year to insist on the need for truth, justice, and comprehensive measures to ensure these crimes are never repeated.
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