Bearing the slogan “Love, Don´t Kill”, this April 9, 2012 hundreds of people came out to recognize the National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with Victims of the Armed Conflict. Photograph: PBI Colombia

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Bearing the slogan “Love, Don´t Kill”, this April 9, 2012 hundreds of people came out to recognize the National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with Victims of the Armed Conflict.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

Through art, theatre, music and graffiti, both victims and Colombian society as whole broke free from the silence, fear and stigmatisation that the armed conflict has imposed on them.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

As of July 2011, the Prosecutor General´s office had registered more than 16,000 cases of disappearances in Colombia.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights 2011 Report, among the 26,026 confessions made as of September 2011 through declarations within the Justice and Peace Law process, some 2,546 were of forced disappearances.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

“Women and children are subjected to systematic and generalised sexual violence at the hands of all parties to the Colombian armed conflict: paramilitaries, members of security forces, and guerrilla combatants”—statement from Amnesty International´s 2011 report.
Photograph: Leonardo Villamizar

In the name of “The Mothers of Soacha”, young graffiti artists painted the streetlamp posts throughout the centre of Bogota. The Mothers of Soacha are 17 women who have borne the loss of their children over the last four years. Members of the Colombian Army falsely presented their sons as members of the guerrilla killed in combat. In 2011, 8 members of the military received prison sentences ranging from 28 to 55 years for the deaths of two of the men that had been disappeared from Soacha (Cundinamarca). The remaining 15 mothers are waiting for justice to be done. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights 2011 Report, the practice of extrajudicial killings has not been fully eradicated.
Photograph: Leonardo Villamizar

The Patriotic Union (UP) is a political party that was founded in 1985 as a result of peace accords between the government and the guerrilla group FARC. The experiment ended with the murder of thousands of member of the UP, while many others were exiled and threatened.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

April 9 has been chosen as the date to mark for the first time a National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with Victims of the Armed Conflict. It was this same day in 1948 that Liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated, unleashing a dark period in Colombian history known as “the Violence.”
Photograph: PBI Colombia

Journalist Jaime Garzon was one of the best political comics and among the most beloved public figures in Colombia. On August 13, 1999 he was murdered. Thousands of people took to the streets to express their outrage. Twelve years later the investigation into his death remains open.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

Bearing the slogan “Love, Don´t Kill”, this April 9, 2012 hundreds of people came out to recognize the National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with Victims of the Armed Conflict.
Photograph: PBI Colombia

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