Victims Unit commemorated Week of the Disappeared Detainee in Cesar

The Victims Unit, in coordination with the Search Unit for Persons Reported Missing (UBPD), held an event to commemorate the International Week of the Missing Detainee, in Valledupar, where the presence of institutions that participate in this event was summoned. search and other reparative processes for people affected by this victimizing event within the framework of the armed conflict in Cesar.

The Victims Unit highlighted the importance of articulating with institutions such as the Cesar Sectional Prosecutor’s Office, the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), among others, in order to respond to the needs of the victims who They remain in search of their detained missing loved ones.

“The Victims Unit commemorates the week of the missing detainee and pays tribute to those who have been subjected to forced disappearance and to the relatives of these people who have suffered the consequences of prolonged mourning and psychosocial effects generated by the absence of their loved ones. dear ones; in addition to the uncertainty of the pain that gives no respite from not knowing what happened,” said the territorial director Cesar – La Guajira de la Unidad, Mario Ríos Oñate.

According to the Single Registry of Victims (RUV), to date there are 8,457 victims of disappearance in the department of Cesar, of which 2,188 people are direct victims and 6,269 indirect victims, associated with the crime of forced disappearance.

“For us it is very dignifying that this commemoration takes place, I have participated in other events, but we had not had the opportunity for it to be here, it is not a way to search, but to dignify because each person who is here is giving it importance to our pain,” said Kelly Díaz, victim of El Copey, Cesar.

For their part, the institutions advanced in a commitment with the victims to advance a day of care where those already mentioned converge again to respond to various processes that, according to the victims, joint care is better for clarity in their situations of Search for your loved ones.

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