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Seeds of hope

30th August 2016
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On 30th August, all around the world people commemorated the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Families of the disappeared gathered in Bogota to remember and dignify their loved ones’ names, lives, memories and dreams.
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On 30th August, all around the world people commemorated the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Families of the disappeared gathered in Bogota to remember and dignify their loved ones’ names, lives, memories and dreams.

  • On 30th August, all around the world people commemorated the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Families of the disappeared gathered in Bogota to remember and dignify their loved ones’ names, lives, memories and dreams.
  • In Colombia, because of the armed conflict, more than 50,000 people have been taken from their homes and forcibly disappeared, a reality that remains invisible despite the chilling statistics. (*Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica).
  • “Grammatical bodies”
  • The work was staged in the place that will become the future National Museum of Memory.
  • “Everybody is a seed”
  • Sowing is synonymous with life and not with violence.
  • Andrea Torres is the niece of Nydia Erika Bautista, who was disappeared in 1987. Her relatives performed “Grammatical Bodies”.
  • Today marks 29 years since the disappearance of Nydia Erika, and it never stops making us sad, even though we found her body, but the impunity hits us hard, the persecution, that men who have us under surveillance and are watching our activities in recent days”. Yanette Bautista, Nydia Erika’s sister.
  • "Enforced disappearance has destroyed dreams and tried to crush the possibilities for existing and thinking differently”.
  • The disappeared will never be forgotten.
  • Let’s not forget the disappeared in the peace. Where are they?
  • It is necessary that Colombia does not forget about enforced disappearance.
  • Grafiti artista DjLu creating a work to remember the disappeared. “Use your head”.
  • The suffering of mothers cannot be measured.
  • "Souvenir" by artist Sair Gonzalez.
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