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Estrategias clínicas psicosociales para abordaje de duelo por desaparición forzada

Resumen

Forced disappearance is a crime that seriously undermines human rights and international humanitarian law, in turn, forced disappearance in Colombia begins to be applied within the framework of the National Security doctrine, in the late 1970s , increasing in the eighties, as a repressive and systematic modality to eliminate political opponents and as a mechanism of repression, when the violation of Human Rights is institutionalized in this country, it should be added that the first case registered as forced disappearance in Colombia and recognized as a repressive modality, dates back to September 9, 1977, with the arrest and disappearance of Omaira Montoya Henao, a 30-year-old bacteriologist, with three months of pregnancy and a leftist militant, as mentioned in (Association of Relatives of Detainees -Disappeared, 2003) From the disappearances and the lack of action of the governmental entities, the relatives decide to organize themselves to demand response and justice regarding where their loved ones are and why they were taken; hence, on February 4, 1983, ASFADDES was born with a mobilization in which they showed the photographs and names of their loved ones, as a result the organization began a struggle for social resistance for the demand for truth, justice and non-repetition; In addition, in this struggle, women and men belonging to the association, some with higher education, others do not, begin training processes in political, legal and psychology sciences, among others, and as time goes by, family members provide legal advice and psychosocial attention to relatives who go through the same situation. (Association of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared, 2003)