{"id":16033,"date":"2021-09-10T22:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sxe.rdx.mybluehost.me\/.website_6cea44c6\/?page_id=16033"},"modified":"2024-10-23T15:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:59:05","slug":"cejil-30-years-the-palace-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/cejil-30-anos\/cejil-30-years-the-palace-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"CEJIL 30 Years: The Palace of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Juan Gabriel Vasquez about Palacio de Justicia\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7hvncC7V6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: original art by Yeye Torres (IG @ye2draws)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>JUAN GABRIEL V\u00c1SQUEZ ABOUT THE PALACE OF JUSTICE<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The persistence of lies and the proliferation of unanswered questions are as much a part of the legacy of war as the crimes themselves<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and often represent a psychological wound capable of causing untold suffering. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone who has come into contact with the testimonies of the victims understands the restorative effect that the simple act of counting the wounds has, of seeing their account collected by a legitimate institution and feeling that, thanks to the account collected, their pain receives the recognition of the community.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post-conflict societies are always battling with various contradictions, but one of the most difficult is undoubtedly this: remembering the past, and doing it accurately and without censorship, is the only effective way to begin forgetting. It is one of the paradoxes of violence: to forget the damage, our first task is to remember it correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this is even more difficult than it sounds. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evasions and denial, obfuscation or outright concealment, and above all deliberate forgetfulness \u2014 that is, all the mechanisms with which a society, through anyone&#8217;s voice, is rendered unaware of the suffering of a human being \u2014 rob those who have suffered from an important part of what is needed to begin possible healing.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, since a civil conflict is also the confrontation of various ways of telling a story to the world, establishing a truth in which everyone can recognize each other becomes an indispensable requirement of any promise of compromise, however imperfect it may be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Interested in supporting our work? Donate to CEJIL here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/JdB8MkW6Dky4YSnvgvBgVg2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: original art by Yeye Torres (IG @ye2draws)\u00a0 JUAN GABRIEL V\u00c1SQUEZ ABOUT THE PALACE OF JUSTICE The persistence of lies and the proliferation of unanswered questions are as much a part of the legacy of war as the crimes themselves, and often represent a psychological wound capable of causing untold suffering. Anyone who has come&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/cejil-30-anos\/cejil-30-years-the-palace-of-justice\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":15908,"parent":15984,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-landing.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16033","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16033\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}