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Present in Memory

Published: August 2012
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With an exposition of more than 200 photographs of the disappeared, the Association of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared (ASFADDES) and the Movement for Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) commemorated this 30 August the International Day for the Detained and Disappeared.
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With an exposition of more than 200 photographs of the disappeared, the Association of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared (ASFADDES) and the Movement for Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) commemorated this 30 August the International Day for the Detained and Disappeared.

  • With an exposition of more than 200 photographs of the disappeared, the Association of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared (ASFADDES) and the Movement for Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) commemorated this 30 August the International Day for the Detained and Disappeared.
  • The National Registry of the Disappeared reports 50,891 persons whose whereabouts are unknown in Colombia, of which it’s presumed some 16,907 are victims of forced disappearance.
  • “Do not permit that the portraits of the victims remain a static photograph in a family album”—this is what family members ask for their disappeared loved ones.
  • For family members of the disappeared, it is clear that Colombian society should know the history of the armed conflict and its victims.
  • For more than an hour, members of ASFADDES read aloud the thousands of names of disappeared persons amid the passers-by in Bogota´s Plaza Lourdes.
  • Many people approached, asking family members of the disappeared about the event. With tears in their eyes, they told the stories of their daughters, sons, brothers and sisters that were disappeared. One woman told how it took seven years to find the body of her only child.
  • Raising awareness among civil society is an important step. For the family members, forced disappearance remains an untold story—a story that has been silenced for a long time.
  • The first person registered as a victim of forced disappearance in Colombia was Omaira Montoya Henao. According to a report from the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination, this bacteriologist and Leftist militant was detained by the secret policeof the era, known as F2. This was in 1977.
  • Forced disappearance continues to be reality in Colombia today. The Round-table on Forced Disappearance of the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination registered 28 cases in 2011.
  • In July 2012, Colombia ratified the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. This is a step forward but remains incomplete, according to Amnesty International, because “although Colombia has made forced disappearance a criminal offense under its national legislation, it has not done so yet with crimes against humanity.”
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