00:01My name is Orlando Burgos García, I'm from Barranca Bermeja.
00:06I have more than 15 years in this fight.
00:09My recognition is from the moment that,
00:15in terms of threats and other things,
00:18I'm moving to Bucaramanga
00:20and I'm coming to a meeting of victims.
00:24And there I am in the defense of the rights of victims,
00:28and I have more than 15 years in this fight.
00:42The law 1448 is the main normative framework
00:46for the reparation of victims in Colombia.
00:49This law contemplates the main measures
00:51of reparation, the main strategies
00:54of the vulnerability and, of course,
00:56the institutional responsibility
00:58of the reparation of victims.
01:01Initially, this law had been planned
01:03in an emergency for 10 years,
01:05because it is a transitional justice system.
01:07So, I expected that in 10 years
01:09the situation of victims had improved.
01:11And, of course,
01:12to try to raise the state of constitutional
01:15that the Court has declared
01:17for victims of forced displacement.
01:19But none of the three
01:20did not restate,
01:22nor repaired,
01:24and neither did the situation
01:28for the state of constitutional
01:31that the court has declared
01:32for victims of forced displacement.
01:35And, of course,
01:37to start articulating,
01:39to mention,
01:40to demand,
01:42to demand,
01:44to demand
01:45that the law is prolonged.
02:03The first scenario
02:04was to accompany the National
02:06of the Victims
02:06in discussions in the constitutional court
02:08and to help them
02:11to organize information,
02:13to provide information
02:13so they can be able
02:15to compete
02:15with the victims.
02:16And that they can be able
02:16to act on a mandate
02:17the best way this space, complementing the work and experience that they already had.
02:21The second scenario is the discussion in the Congress,
02:24where, from the work that the Mesa National of Victim and the organizations of victims,
02:30especially in the Commission of Segment to the Ley 1448, the Commission Legal of the Congress,
02:37began to impulse the idea that, against this failure of existence,
02:43it was necessary to present a law that amplifies the temporal horizon of the Ley 1448.
02:50The support that allowed or facilitated CODES USAID has been fundamental,
02:57and fundamental because I have to refer to myself that it has been from now,
03:01it has been from many years, but in this part of the objective of prorogating the Ley 1448,
03:12fundamental because we have been some studies of all the problems of victims,
03:20not only from the public policies that must be made by the national and territorial government,
03:26but also from the same environment of all that surrounds us as victims of the armed conflict.
03:42The reparation for victims, beyond a economic monument,
03:48we can't see the importance there, but beyond the reconstruction of a social fabric,
03:57a place of life, the power of the rights of the government,
04:05we have to be able to meet the families,
04:08we have to be able to say this,
04:13we are here, we are here, we are in the government's perspective,
04:16we are brought to another scene of living and living.
04:22If the government really understands what there is in front of a restoration of rights of the victims and the
04:28fulfillment of public policies in the territory, we could see the success of that ley 1448.
04:34And to see it, for me, it would be really, not only emotional, but also a duty to feel that
04:42the struggle was fructified, that the struggle had the privilege of being able to see my colleagues and colleagues in
04:53the whole country that this will be fulfilled.
04:55And for that it will be fulfilled, what we have to say to the government is to implement.
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