00:01For the state, we are invisible and here nothing happened.
00:05My husband took it in the year 92.
00:10Nobody gave a reason, nobody gave a reason.
00:14They never have answered why they don't want to recognize us.
00:18That has been our struggle and will be our struggle.
00:24To demand that Boyacá be recognized as a territory victim of the armed conflict,
00:29but especially that the province of Lengupá be recognized as a province,
00:34as a territory where there are collective affections
00:37and where the repair must also be collective.
00:39What is the impact of your youth and their children?
00:48What is the impact of your youth?
00:52What is your job like?
00:54My job is as a mother...
01:07I work here in the field, in my beef and in the coffee.
01:14How is your husband's name?
01:16Jose Agustin Mendoza Vargas, he was 30 years old when he took it.
01:24Because at least they would have taken their life and they would have left over there.
01:32At least they had a burial, one saw it, one knew where they would go, to pray, to take it
01:40loose, to see what they were in the cemetery.
01:43But it was very hard.
01:47He came out like this and they took it.
01:51I didn't see it anymore, but I went from here to here to the corner.
01:57And there was one.
02:01That guy was looking for all of them.
02:04He was looking for weapons.
02:07He didn't find anything.
02:09He stayed there.
02:10Then he asked me questions.
02:13Well, if I was aware of someone, of the paramilitaries, I would say, no, sir, I don't know.
02:19The only thing I see is that they are here in the street.
02:23And they were themselves.
02:24He was himself.
02:35In this area, the Buitrago was the leader of Martyr Llanos.
02:41Really, the Buitrago were the citizens of the municipality of Paez.
02:46They were, in this area, they were born with us.
02:49They were born with us.
02:50They were born with us.
02:51They were born with us.
02:53They were born with us.
02:54They were born with us.
02:55They were born with us.
02:55So, what happened today?
02:57When we came to Yair Clare, the Israelite, to do training in Puerto Boyacá,
03:03Hector Buitrago, who is the father of the Buitrago,
03:05was the father of Victor Carranza.
03:07So, what I have understood and understood is that he was in the training that did Yair Clare in Puerto
03:13Boyacá.
03:14And, from that time, they divided the territory.
03:18So, the Buitrago stayed with this part,
03:20which was against Casanare, with Meta and Baupes.
03:24With the time, with the knife, they fought for the territory.
03:28So, Buitrago stayed with Meta, Casanare and this part here,
03:34which is part of Boyacá.
03:42In Lengupá, there are many places irregularly disposal of corpses,
03:48which is commonly known as common fosses,
03:50within and outside of the cemetery.
03:53There are many places that have been designated by armed actors
03:56to guarantee the occlusion, to guarantee the disappearance.
04:01We are in a beautiful territory, in a territory that is very biodiverse,
04:06that is rich in its soil, but that also hides in its soil the disaster
04:13of the forced disappearance.
04:20I passed the complaint as, I don't remember, as three years old.
04:27I don't remember well.
04:29Because, because of the fear that I gave me, that no one would go and put a complaint.
04:34I saw them in the village, taking them, taking them, taking them,
04:37taking them, taking them, looking at the police, all together.
04:39I said, I don't know, what's going on?
04:41No, I couldn't deny it.
04:42It was a lot of fear.
04:45It was a lot of fear.
04:46My brothers, my brothers, my brothers, they took three,
04:52two menores of age and one younger age.
04:55Beyer, Jiménez y José Bernardo Jiménez Martínez.
05:06Did you ever hear any rumor of where he could be?
05:11No, no.
05:12Only that they took them and put them in La Buena Vista.
05:16That was the only thing I heard.
05:17At La Buena Vista, down below, in an abyss,
05:19that they were where they put them and put them.
05:23In La Buena Vista, there was a lot of people, a lot of people disappeared.
05:28In some cases, they shot them, and they shot them with the desire to disfigure the people.
05:34But there were some cases where they shot the people alive.
05:36They shot them, and after they shot them, they shot them.
05:41Look here, take it.
05:42look at them looking for...
06:00Well, here we have a plot from La Buena Vista's
06:07both sides, the side of Berbeo, the side of Paez and the side of Miraflores, we see how
06:12the canyon is together, a place with such a beautiful nature, so fascinating and
06:19at the same time a tragic place for the territory.
06:21The High of the Buenavista is a place that has been used by different armed actors.
06:28In the Buenavista Grande, which remains between Miraflores and Campohermoso, it was used
06:33from 1949 to 1953, by these actors who participated in the time of violence, in the
06:43bipartisan war, but on this side of the road, which leads from Berbeo and San Eduardo to
06:50the Paez, it is the High of the Buenavista, commonly known, and in this place the armed actors
06:58made a presence, especially the paramilitar groups used this place as a place of
07:04possession of bodies, from 1989 to 2005. In these years, we do not have, because we
07:15have to be honest with them, we do not have a record and a exact date of the number of
07:19people
07:19who were arrested, because it is very difficult to access an information totally
07:25veridical, no obstante, from the documentation that was made from COSPAC and with the
07:31Human Rights Committee of the different municipalities that form the province, we have an
07:36approximately 600 people disappeared in the High of the Buenavista.
07:41There was everything, there were many community leaders, many community leaders, there were
07:48women, women violated, women desapareced, there was anyone who opposed or said something about
07:57them, that was their objective really.
08:04Well, here we are already below the road, which is a national road to Villa Paez, and here
08:12we start descending to the Buenavista, which was where they had the race of the two violences
08:20that existed in the region of Lengupá.
08:25We started the first memorial event, which we did in the Park of Miraflores, and in the
08:32year 2014, we started the pilgrimage here at the place, we came from the border of the
08:38road to the place where people were arrested.
08:44Well, this place is fundamental, this place, these stones, these witnesses that remain here,
08:53are the witnesses of the two violences of the time where people were arrested and where
08:59they could not be able to rescue, they could not be able to do anything, because it is a
09:04place too high, it has about 500 meters, where it would fall to the river Lengupá, and
09:11from there it was very difficult that they could be able to rescue.
09:21We do a collective memory, sometimes we bring the exhibition of the drawings that did the
09:28children of violence, the victims of the victims are found, they are found, they are found, they
09:33are found, they are found, they have been told their pain and their hearts, they always
09:44come the parents, they are made the prayer, they are made a beautiful humility and a
09:48beautiful unity between the community.
09:51In this project we have found, until the moment, 18 places irregularly
09:55of corpses of corpses, between individuals and collectively.
09:59In 2019, we visited this place in the company, in the company of victims, of
10:07families of corpses, which is very relevant for COSPAC, because the search
10:13cannot be only for institutions, the search cannot be only for professionals who
10:19have knowledge in search of corpses, but it is very important that the
10:23component of the direct participation of the victims.
10:31The space recognized or known as the Alto de la Buena Vista has the
10:35difficulty in which the risk has a curve and in the lower part
10:40is the Afluente.
10:41And then there is a part where the area of the Boscow is quite wide,
10:45we calculate more than 200 meters in horizontal, but there is a
10:50area where it is much more angsty.
10:52We have to see what interests had or what were the practices of the victim
10:57in having arrojated the victims for a place that was more
11:01appropriate to guarantee the occult.
11:04So, in that sense, we have to bring them with greater force to the
11:08point where they are closer to the river.
11:12Lastimosamente, there are also possibilities of manipulation of the
11:15body, because as we know that in the region there were
11:20exercises of torture.
11:24Torture, we also don't know how many of those tortures, some of those
11:30sufferings inflicted on the victims could have caused, for example,
11:35separation of body segments that difficult the search,
11:39that one could find part of a body in one place and another part in another region.
11:44So definitely here we have the opportunity to connect
12:04We have to think about the bottom line and we have to go here to move on this
12:42Oh
12:53For us, it is very important to sit down and talk with you.
13:00It is a promise to have a meeting in the next week with the directives of the NIA.
13:28It is a promise to have a meeting in the next week with the NIA.
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