Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians Displaced by Violence (Voice of Witness)

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Sibylla Brodzinsky ; Max Schoening Publisher: English View all editions and formats Summary: For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country's own military. Civilians in Colombia have to make their lives despite the threat of torture, kidnapping, and large-scale massacres? The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia's human rights crises: Throwing Stones at the Moon makes it personal through these narratives of loved and difficult life, vivid and specific to Colombia's places and to the families torn and struggling amid the long war.

Brodzinsky and Schoening convey these people's tender and bitter stories, of resilience and loss, of cruelty and solidarity, in their own full voices. Stories that don't end with an act of violence, but that call out for compassion, and for justice.

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Often astonishing quotes double as headings Readers concerned with human rights and Latin American politics will find this account of violence and survival both sad and inspiring. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I've seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you. In them, the specific illuminates the general, destroying preconceptions, stereotypes, and cop-out responses along the way. While there are many moving stories in the book, describing in detail the abuses civilians have suffered at the hands of paramilitaries, guerillas and the army alike, the most affecting story for me was that of union leader Maria Victoria Jimenez who was attacked, and her face mutilated, by paramilitaries.

As the book explains, more than unionists have been killed in Colombia since , and "it is widely believed that right-wing paramilitaries are the principal perpetrator of the slayings. Indeed, she helped to rebuild this chapter after it had collapsed when members quit en masse in after the president of a chapter of the union in a nearby municipality was assassinated. After Maria took over as president and began raising issues of mismanagement and corruption in the hospital, she was attacked by paramilitaries who stabbed her seven times and ended up slicing off most of her nose and part of her upper lip.

Maria's story is one of tragedy, but also bravery as she continues to lead the union even after this attack.

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However, she is left feeling alone at the end of the story after the criminal investigator, Jaime, who she trusted so, was himself a victim of a paramilitary assassination. In the end, there is one inexorable conclusion which one must draw from this book - that Colombia must find a peaceful, political solution to the armed conflict which has plagued that country and its civilian population for over 50 years. There is growing support for such a solution amongst Colombians, led by such groups as the Patriotic March, and both the FARC and even President Santos have expressed interest in such a solution.

Hopefully this book will help to lead policy makers -- including U. National Security Council member Samantha Power who is listed as a Founding Adviser of the publisher of Moon - to decide to finally support a peace process for Colombia in order to end the spiral of violence described so well in the book. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Given that these voices are rarely heard, this book is invaluable.

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