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Colombia conflict victims take to needle and thread to tell their stories

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Bogotá, Apr 9 (EFE).- The Colombia conflict victims have decided to use a needle and thread to tell their stories and rally around the institutions that address collective memory of the decades-long war.On Friday when the country observed the annual solidarity day, Truth Commission covered its building with a large embroidered cloth, displaying the patterns and contours of the victims' life.There was an image of a woman being beaten before the innocent gaze of her children and the names of murdered women, together with motifs like trees and birds embroidered on the drapes displayed on the facade of the complex in Bogotá. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: THE TRUTH COMMISSION BUILDING COVERED BY 540 METERS OF CLOTH, WOVEN BY MEN AND WOMEN BELONGING TO THE DIFFERENT SEAMSTRESSES OF MEMORY, TO COMMEMORATE THE DAY OF MEMORY AND SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.

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