This case study analyzes the historical forms of violence against the population of Western Boyacá and its incidence on the disputes of the survivors to be recognized by the Ley de Víctimas. From the Colony to the recent wars for the emeralds (1966-1989), various actors in search of power have resorted to both direct violence and justice at their own hand to control this population. This implied the emergence of codes of social control over the population such as silence or gossip, which over time would prevent, among others, the effective deployment of historical memory exercises in the territory. Thus, since 2011 tensions have been generated around how the past, violence, justice and responsibility for wars are read. Where the families that were victimized during the wars for the emeralds negotiate with the discursive construction of this law, that is, the categories, narratives and discourses around the internal armed conflict and the victims. To clarify these tensions, interviews, visits, observations and informal talks were carried out with the survivors in one of the municipalities of this territory. As well as press releases from the period after the end of the wars. It is revealed that, in their reparation processes, the survivors must negotiate both with the remnants of the historical forms of social control, and with the forms of control of this public policy as an exercise that seeks to order the victim population.
publication date
March 16, 2022 2:00 PM
Research
keywords
Discursive construction
Informal talk
Privatization of justice
Silence
Survivors
Victims Law
Violent conflicts
Violent conflicts, discursive construction, Victims Law, Survivors, privatization of justice, Western Boyacá, silence, informal talk
