The massacre caused the displacement of 5,771 people to Quibdó.
On May 2, 2002, nearly one hundred people died (among them 48 minors) after FARC guerrillas launched a cylinder bomb, during a confrontation with AUC paramilitaries, against the church of Bellavista (urban area of the municipality of Bojayá) where the population took refuge.
This fact represents a milestone in the long chain of violence that our country has experienced, while it is also a culmination point of the degradation of the armed conflict that the Afro-descendant and indigenous communities of the Atrato region and the department of Chocó still suffer. This violent action showed the violation of all the norms of International Humanitarian Law by the armed groups, as well as the failures of the Colombian State in its obligation to ensure the integrity of this community.
Historical Memory (MH) publicly presented this report on September 24, 2010, during the III Week for Memory, at the headquarters of the General Archive of the Nation in Bogotá; and in the regional launches held on November 18 and 19, 2010 in Bellavista-Bojayá (Chocó) and Quibdó (Chocó), respectively.
In support of this research, MH presented the documentary Bojayá: La guerra sinlimites, whose premiere took place during the III Week for Memory (Thursday, September 23) and was also screened during the regional launches.
Read the full text of Bojayá. War Without Limits
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