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Calle 19 No. 4-88 Oficina 1302 Bogotá D.C. – Colombia. Tel: (051) 2814010 / www.somosdefensores.org [email protected] 2019 The Somos Defensores (We Are Defenders) Program, is a protection area that seeks to develop a comprehensive proposal to prevent aggression and protect the lives of people at risk due to their work as human rights defenders, when they protect the interests of social groups and communities affected by violence in Colombia. The Somos Defensores program is formed by: This edition was made by the Somos Defensores Program, with the coordination of the MINGA Association Editorial and Publishing Coordination Diana Sánchez Lara y Sirley Muñoz Murillo Research Gustavo Ulcué Campo, Sirley Muñoz Murillo, Suly Pinzón, Leonardo Díaz Morales, Sebastián Herrera SIADDHH Investigator and analyst Gustavo Ulcué Campo SIVeL System Vladimir Támara (https://sivel.sf.net) Thanks to OACNUDH, Ombudsman Office, CINEP, Colombia Europe United States Coordination, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia Design, Layout and Printing El Búho S.A.S. Publishing House Translation Osiris Duarte Ilustration Alejandro Arévalo Maps Claudia Campo Cisneros ISBN: 978-958-56838-2-2 The content of this report holds responsibility on its authors and does not compromise the organizations and institutions that support this publication. This publication is of a cultural, pedagogical nature and its distribution is free. It can be photocopied and reproduced as long as the source is cited. The printing of our 2019 report is possible thanks to the resources of Diakonia Sweden and the Norwegian Embassy in Colombia. The work of the Somos Defensores Program in 2019 is possible thanks to the support of the Norwegian Embassy in Colombia and the cooperation agencies Misereor, Diakonia, International Amnisty and Pan para el Mundo (Bread for the World). The Mind Stone We travel through the history of this country, consumed by a lethargy situation, thinking that violence is natural, that we have grown through it and therefore belong in it. It dominates our mind. Waking up from that trance, is a must. Semi-annual report January - June 2019. Defenders: Endgame? uring the first year of the only with a snap of his fingers tries Dgovernment of Iván Duque, to return us to the past and not let one of the most sensitive issues us out of the chaos, preventing the on the national scene has been the truth from being known, shutting up permanent crime against human half of the country, closing the doors rights defenders and the country’s to democracy and emphasizing war social leadership. The debate is and militarization, again. As is the marked by frequent questions such case in the film, this is done to shape as: Who is behind the attacks, what society according to the interests of are the causes and what is the a small group, overcoming collective Government doing. The responses needs and rights. Meanwhile, the from the State and government human rights and peace defender institutions are diverse and marked society makes huge efforts not to by places and measures as common lose what was achieved with the as they are precarious: Increased Peace Agreement and prevent new resources for physical and material dynamics of violence from being protection, awareness campaigns, installed in the territories and close militarization of territories and once and for all, the armed conflict in government programs to mitigate. the country However, none of those touches the underlying problem and, therefore, Thus, this Report Defenders: End do not offer solutions to face the game?, parodying the movie Avengers: phenomenon, although it is as old End game, wanted to go beyond the as the violence itself in the country, media exercise, to investigate if the it has developed into a very worrying official approaches are reaching the situation. bottom of the problem and if the proposed formulas respond to the If at this time we compare Colombia challenge of overcoming the difficulty to a movie, such could be Avengers: or if they continue to go around the End game. This is because we are branches without touching its root. facing a State that seems to be However, this institutional reading is under the power of Thanos1, who complex, to the extent that it is done in the midst of a context marked by government ambiguity between 1 Thanos is a villain from Marvel comics, which appears in the movie Avengers: pretending to defend the Peace End game. Its purpose is to collect the six Agreement and deliberately ignoring gems of infinity, which give him the abili- it from actions directed openly against ty to become the most powerful being in its very heart. Likewise, to attempt an the universe. With these gems, located in a gauntlet, Thanos snaps his fingers and analysis of the role and responsibility eliminates half of the world’s population to of the State in the critical situation install what he considers the ideal order. of social leadership is even more 5 Information System on Attacks against Human Rights Defenders - ISAAHRD complex, since it is necessary to Government plus the reconfiguration distinguish between identifying the of violence and armed conflict in the role of senior officials who have a territories, leave the feeling that we’re genuine vocation to find solutions to returning in time and that little by little the problem, and those that in their chaos is imposed, which destroys all role of power place it at the center for the efforts made by society in recent their political profitability. years in the defense of life and peace. The report is divided into four The third chapter, Defenders: chapters. In the first chapter, One Infinite Force, is a recognition of Snap and It’s Over, some of the the indestructible strength of human actions are exposed, actions that this rights defenders, who despite being in Government has carried out to try the midst of fear and aggressions, do and erase with a single blow what not stop working for collective rights, others have tried to build with a huge even risking their own lives in the effort, such as the alternative of a process. These struggles have been different country, and those that it increasingly evident and they have has used to create from the speech been joined by various sectors such of its own version of reality, above as politicians, media, international the difficult situations that hundreds community, organizations and the of communities in the territories are same society, which have been evidently going through. The denial of mobilized permanently and massively the armed conflict and the disregard during the first semester to condemn of important provisions of the Peace the systematic attack of human rights Agreement between the Government defenders and to demand guarantees and the demobilized guerrilla of the to protect their lives. FARC, are a sample of what is meant to be erased with a single snap, In the last chapter of the Report, regardless that this could destroy the data analysis of the Information the possibility of overcoming an System on Aggressions against important part of our conflicts. Human Rights Defenders in Colombia –SIADDHH–, which is The second chapter, The Order based on the cases registered and Through Chaos, shows how in verified by the Somos Defensores addition to the fact that key elements Program, is presented. This time, the of the reality of the country are being results show that at the end of the ignored, a particular “order” is being first half of 2019, a decrease in the imposed by the Government, shaped statistics of murders against social through its interests, but which is leaders was evident, which decreased cemented in chaos and, particularly, by 23% compared to the first half in the return to measures from the of 2018; nevertheless, and very past that were the flag of previous unfortunately, violence against these governments. Thus, issues such as activists, in general, is maintained the militaristic approach, extrajudicial and has increased; due to strategy executions and the old democratic changes in in the territories, it is security camouflaged under new mainly reflected in other types of non- names, appear. These actions of the lethal aggressions, such as threats. 6 Semi-annual report January - June 2019. Defenders: Endgame? In addition, due to the strength that nization of Colombia –ONIC–, the the conflict has achieved in the Office of the Ombudsman and the regions and the electoral landscape, Office of the United Nations High it is feared that the trend will not be Commissioner for Human Rights in maintained and that the figures may Colombia –OACNUDH–. In addition, increase at the end of 2019, especially we want to acknowledge the Royal those of murders. Norwegian Embassy in Colombia for its constant political and financial Finally, we would like to extend support, and the international coo- our thanks to all the people and peration agencies DIAKONIA Sweden, organizations that surround the work MISEREOR Germany, International we do at SIADDHH, especially to Amnesty and Pan Para el mundo the Center for Popular Research and (Bread for the World). Their support Education –CINEP–, to the Colombia is essential for our work and for the Europe United States Coordination preparation of this report. –CCEEU–, to the Indigenous Orga- 7 The Soul Stone For the land, life, peace and rights, hundreds of people have delivered what is most valuable: Their soul. Although many are no longer here, their voices are not extinguished, the struggles persist in the territories. Semi-annual report January - June 2019. Defenders: Endgame? IN MEMORY OF THE MURDERED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS During the first half of 2019, 59 human rights defenders were murdered in Co- lombia. Although those who extinguished their lives sought to silence their voi- ces, they are more alive than ever.
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