In 60 years of conflict there were 357,108 violent acts, affirms the National Center for Historical Memory

At the launch of the Internet microsite dedicated to collecting information related to the country’s internal conflict, called Observatory of Memory and Conflict, the National Center for Historical Memory (Cnmh) delivered to the nation figures of violence in the country since 1958 to October 2020.

According to the entity, 357,108 violent events that left 416,808 direct victims, with a tragic balance of 265,505 people killed in more than 50 years of conflict.

In this exhaustive report, the entity makes a breakdown of the figures in order to demonstrate that the Violence in the country did not exclude any actor in the death spiral that the country experienced as part of its armed conflict.

Selective killings

For him National Center for Historical Memory, this category is the one that has left the most deaths in the period evaluated with the 42.94% of all violent acts committed in the conflict.

Son 179,551 compatriots those who have lost their lives under this modality.

Enforced disappearance

Despite the controversy that the Organization Forced Disappearance, whose researchers claim that they have been suppressed 4,152 people missing from the records, the National Center for Historical Memory argue that the total percentage is 19.2% of violent actions against fellow nationals in the chronology of the conflict.

Son 80,599 victims, of which 8,248 were found dead; 1,793 alive and 58,951 of which there is no further information after their disappearance.

At the end of October 2020, they remain 11,607 disappeared in the national territory. Although, the Cnmc warns, there are indications that would allow its location to be traced.

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War actions within the conflict

With the 10.2% of all cases, this modality is related to Acts of war proper between the Colombian state and the irregular forces in the conflict.

For the Cnmh, the following modalities, such as kidnapping, with un 8.7%, damage to civilian property, with 5.9%, recruitment and use of minors, with 4.7%, sexual violence, with 4.3%, and 15,757 victimsThe majority of women and minors, as a result of sexual violence, are a tight picture of what the conflict meant in terms of loss of human life and suppression of human rights.

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Peasants, on top of the victims of the conflict

Given their rural condition, the peasants suffered more severely from violent actions taken against them, with 27,334 victims.

Follow him 25,731 guerrillas with 14.1% of the total victims and the armed forces with 13.2%, that is, 23,748 victims.

Massacres

The CNMH confirms that 2020 has seen the resurgence of this form of violence with 64 victims in the 10 months of this year. He points out that it is a gradual increase, registered mainly in Antioquia, with 27.2%, followed by Nariño, 18 percent, and Norte de Santander with the same figure.

Of the total number of victims, it is again the peasants who suffer the most from the consequences of the conflict, with a 68% of the total.

The mathematics of death

However, the data report that, despite the perception of violence, its peak occurred in 2002, long before the Peace Accords were a reality.

In that year, they were registered 30,073 acts of violence. For 2010, the figure confirmed a decrease in violent acts, with a total of 5,017. After the signing of the agreements, in 2019 events of this type were 486 shares In colombia.

Although the figures with the National Victims Unit disagree in quantity, this entity affirms that there are more than 9 million victims who have appeared in the conflict, the CNMH indicates that its observatory builds the data from the direct victims of the actions of violence in Colombia.

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