Some of these photographs accompanied the article ‘A Sea of Tears and Impunity’: Victims Still Searching for Justice 14 Years After Infamous Colombia Military Operation published at The WorldPost.
Members of the Comuna 13-based victims organization Women Walking for Truth present a statement at an October 14 press conference.
Members of the Comuna 13-based victims organization Women Walking for Truth present a statement at an October 14 press conference.
Members of the Women Walking for Truth gather behind the message “Accords Now” scrawled across the stage with rose petals for an October 14, 2016 event commemorating Operation Orion.
A member of the victims’ rights group Women Walking for Truth waits outside of the San Javier library and community center with the neighborhood of Comuna 13 behind her.
Women Walking for Truth members Blanca Nidia Perez Botero (right) and Luz Elena Galeano Laverde (left) outside of “La Casa Morada,” an activist meeting space in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellín.
“Orion never again” reads a mural commemorating 14 years since Operation Orion laid seige to the neighborhood of Comuna 13 in Medellín, Colombia’s second largest city. The eyes of human rights activist Luz Elena Galeano Laverde look on as peace grows and origami doves flutter.
A mural of Luz Elena Galeano Laverde, a prominent member of the Women Walking for Truth.
A mural honoring the Women Walking for Truth and the National Movement for Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE by its Spanish acronym).
A mural painted near the San Javier Library reads: “I am Comuna 13, where memory and life are present.”
Women Wallking for Truth member Luz Elena Galeano Laverde hand made pouches containing “notes from the disappeared” for distribution at an event commemorating Operation Orion. This note reads: “I am Wilmar Alberto Osorio. They disappeared me. I need you to find me.”
Angelika Albaladejo 
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