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Leyner Palacios, winner in 2017 of the Global Pluralism Award for vindicating the rights of the victims of the conflict and survivor of the Bojayá massacre (2002), is the new member of the Truth Commission of Colombia.
Palacios replaces Ángela Salazar Murillo, who died on August 7 in a hospital in the municipality of Apartadó, Antioquia, due to COVID-19.
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After a rigorous study in which aspects such as his career, ethnicity and knowledge of the Colombian armed conflict were evaluated, Palacios was elected as the new commissioner.
The Commission, created at the request of the peace agreement signed between the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrillas In 2016, it was part of the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition, which also includes the Unit for the Search of Persons deemed Missing and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
Palacios serves as general secretary of the Inter-Ethnic Truth Commission of the Pacific region, which works for the rights of victims and communities in that region of the country.
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In own flesh
The social leader Leyner Palacios has experienced the armed conflict firsthand and due to his leadership in favor of the victims, he has been the victim of death threats.
He was born in the town of Bojayá, Chocó, where he began his activism for those most affected by the violence.
On May 2, 2002 Palacios he lost 32 family and friends in Bojayá, scene of one of the worst massacres of the conflict.
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This massacre occurred when the FARC guerrillas launched a cylinder bomb against the paramilitary Self-Defense Forces and the explosive fell on the church where part of the people had taken refuge, killing at least 79 people, although other figures speak of 119 dead and dozens injured .
