Relatives of the victims of the massacres that occurred in recent days in Colombia on Sunday rejected the statements of the president, Iván Duque, in which he classified such crimes as “collective homicides”.
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“This was a massacre, this was not collective homicide, it was a massacre that they committed with our children, that they come to collaborate with us so that there is truth and justice,” said Álvaro Caicedo, father of one of the minors murdered in the Llano Verde massacre. , in the sultana del Valle.
In rejection of the Colombian president’s pronouncement, Caicedo also sent him a message. “He should put his chest as it should be, that they do not come to make fun of our pain,” he said.
The deaths caused by violence caused by drug trafficking and terrorism hurt us. Between 2010 and 2018, our country experienced 189 collective homicides, and between 2019 and 2020, 34 events of that nature. We will continue fighting FARC, ELN, Gulf Clan, cartels and others dissidents. pic.twitter.com/r4kA3ComdT
– Iván Duque (@IvanDuque)
August 22, 2020
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President Iván Duque declared on Saturday during a trip to the department of Nariño that the massacres that took place in various regions of the country, which have left more than 30 people dead, are “collective homicides.”
“Many people have said: ‘the massacres returned, the massacres returned’, first let’s talk about the precise name: ‘collective homicides’, and sadly it must be accepted as a country, it is not that they returned, it is that these events have not sadly gone away” , he asserted.
Similarly, President Duque compared the massacres that occurred in two years of his government with the eight of his predecessor, Juan Manuel Santos, ignoring the trend of increasing the number of massacres since 2018.
How is this going, on August 7, 2022, when he ceases to be President of the Republic, Iván Duque will say that the hundreds of social leaders and former guerrillas assassinated, as well as the massacres that have occurred since 2018 are the fault of the Santos government.
– Iván Cepeda Castro (@IvanCepedaCast)
August 22, 2020
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While the relatives of the deceased are demanding justice, the National Victims Committee described the president’s statements as “absurd” and acknowledged that this type of analysis evidences the alleged responsibility of the State in crimes by action or omission.
“Either you really don’t know where it is located or you don’t understand anything about the conflict that is happening in this country. It would be very good for the entire Democratic Center and its caucus to study what is happening in the country, the entire political context because they only say atrocities that not even the most ignorant understand, “said Rosario Montoya, a member of the National Table of Victims.
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