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De Roux Rengifo

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  1. “May it be that the lesson of Colombia is to reject war everywhere for all time and lead us to passionately seek truth and the dignity of human beings. For Colombia and for the world, there will be a future if there is truth.”

    2022-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9094 (2022) · source

  2. “We are optimistic that there are young people in Colombia that have taken up that legacy — young people who are working for peace and the protection of life in all its forms, including indigenous and Afro- Colombian women, educators and religious leaders, LGBTI+ persons, new entrepreneurial figures, all pooling their efforts, as well as judges, justices, artists, union members and human rights defenders. Colombia has a long way to go, but it has begun its journey. It has accepted fearlessly the historical truth of its own tragedy and is determined to look forward to the future we will build, accepting our wounds, to ultimately enrich ourselves as a culture and as a people driven by creativity, art, freedom and the very creation of life.”

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  3. “We have understood that the solution to an armed conflict involves respecting each and every person as an equal human individual and that we must give every boy and girl, whether from indigenous or Afro- Colombian communities, the same respect as is reserved for presidents, rich people, doctors, diplomats, eminent figures and army generals. All cults of personality and elites must end, and we must respect and love one another as holders of that same dignity. We must contribute to promoting an ethical framework based on human dignity drawing on all spiritual traditions.”

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  4. “We invite everyone throughout the world to work to regulate markets and shoulder their responsibilities in terms of education and public health at a global level on an issue that affects us all, just as we learned to work together to care for ourselves during the coronavirus disease pandemic. We ask that everyone understand the connection between drug trafficking and corruption, because criminal money buys off governors, mayors, judges, members of the police force, guerrilla members and military men, and it serves to make corruption at other levels more widespread.”

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  5. “The Commission calls for an end to the war against drug trafficking and asks that efforts be made to understand how wrong it is to claim that armed prohibitionism can halt drug trafficking, when all such an approach does is increase the profits of drug trafficking. Colombian victims have made their needs known, loud and clear, and, hearing them, we ask that drug- consuming nations shoulder their responsibility in capturing drug barons and ensuring that they are made subject to transitional justice processes, under which they must face up to public declarations of the truth about their political, economic and military partnerships as well as those with banks as relates to their businesses. They must also provide monetary redress to victims.”

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  6. “That is why today we are asking that, if there are to be armed forces, it should be an army and a police force for peace, not for war, and we ask the international community not to give us anything for war. We want to make Colombia a global paradigm of reconciliation after so much suffering. In Colombia, the war has been steeped in drug trafficking. Since we are in war mode, we borrowed from other drug-consuming countries the idea that drug trafficking is a matter of national security, and therefore a matter of war. We united to destroy the peasants who seek refuge in coca because we have left them impoverished and dispossessed of land and capital.”

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  7. “Our security became a never-ending armed security because armed security always asks for more weapons and more justification in deaths. We established armed security to provide security for the authorities, the institutions, the assets and the companies, and even security to protect the armed bureaucracy itself. But there was not adequate security to protect the people, the individual. That is why, in the Colombian war, eight out of every 10 deaths were of civilians and the jungles, rivers and mountains were victims of anti-personnel mines, as were the thousands of young Colombians on both sides of the conflict who fought in an always pointless war.”

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  8. “One of them was Ramiro Durán, whom Mr. Ruiz Massieu just mentioned. We have understood that war is never simple and that armed actors wage war within a system where decisions are influenced or determined by cultural, political, economic, military, bureaucratic and criminal interests and goals. We have found that, at the origin and in the continuation of war, there is an ethical vacuum, a disregard for every human being and for the incomparable value of each woman and man. War damages everything that it touches. It harms those who are attacked and those who attack. We have understood that, in the case of Colombia, it is necessary to change the security system. From the beginning, more than 60 years ago, we decided that security should be ensured by arms.”

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  9. “They cry out as the mothers of the young non-combatants who were killed and portrayed by their perpetrators as guerrillas who died in combat, and they continually demand: who gave the order? But we have not just listened. We have sought answers to these questions. Why did that happen? What effects did all that have on the people, society and democracy? Who caused it and how? What can we do to prevent it from happening again? The search for answers to those questions has allowed us to understand the reason for the damage done to life, democracy and culture and to understand why the conflict seeks to persist and continue, as shown by the more than 1,000 leaders assassinated, together with 333 men and women of the former guerrillas of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia who signed the peace agreement.”

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  10. “We walked alongside groups of the more than 8 million displaced persons, alongside hundreds of women whose bodies were used as battlefields, alongside peasants whose land was taken from them and alongside indigenous, Afro-Colombian and Roma communities, who were targeted more than others in an armed conflict where there is increasing racism. It hurts us to see that all that was known in Colombia. The world knew about it. We saw it on the television and heard it on the radio, but we let it continue for 50 years as if such barbarity did not concern us. Except for the struggles of many people who did not allow themselves to be intimidated by fear, as well as the efforts of our State, the Colombian Governments, and most particularly the struggle of mothers, who continue to shout: stop this war, stop it on all sides, stop it now.”

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  11. “Among those victims, the weapons of the war killed 450,000 people between 1985 and 2018. Eighty per cent of all those affected, the survivors and those killed, were not soldiers or guerrillas, but unarmed civilians. That is war. It is always against the civilian population. We heard multiple testimonies of the 50,000 kidnapped and of many of the thousands of children brought into the war, for which the guerrillas bear the greatest responsibility. We know about the forced disappearances and the so-called false positives, for which the State bears immense and direct responsibility. We have been to the sites of more than 4,000 massacres, some of more than 100 people, where entire communities were destroyed and where the barbarity of the paramilitaries exceeded all possible imagination.”

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  12. “It is a word of truth from Colombia, a message of pain and, at the same time, a courageous word, which shows, from the individual wounded by war and from the wounded society, a bold and obligatory path to build together a nation in peace out of our differences and a new world that fills with joy the children of today and tomorrow, where there is room for hope. For four years, we have listened to the suffering that Colombia’s internal war of more than 50 years has left behind. We heard more than 30,000 individual and collective testimonies from all sides in a divided country, and we read more than 1,000 reports coming from victim communities and from 24 countries where there are Colombian exiles. A total of more than 10 million people have been affected in various ways by that war.”

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  13. “I thank him for all that he has done to support us and everything he has given us. I have come to report that the task that the Council members unanimously supported is complete. Here is the conclusion of that task, and Council members will receive a summary of that hereon. On behalf of my colleagues in the Truth Commission, and reflecting the feelings of millions of Colombian men and women victims of the war, we bring a word of gratitude and thanks to all those present, as peoples gathered at the United Nations.”

    2022-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9094 (2022) · source

  14. “Mr. De Roux Rengifo: Allow me to salute three very significant persons before starting my briefing: (spoke in Spanish) Ms. Jineth Casso Piamba, representing the presence of our victims and our Afro-Colombian peoples; Ms. Marta Lucía Ramírez, Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia; and Mr. Guillermo Roque Fernandez De Soto Valderrama, our Ambassador to the United Nations. A little more than two years ago, I stood before the members of the Security Council, when there was still no pandemic. The Security Council had already come to Colombia. Members had placed their trust in us. Today I return before the Council on the occasion of the quarterly report on the peace process in Colombia (S/2022/513), which the Head of Mission, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, just presented.”

    2022-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9094 (2022) · source