BWA对哥伦比亚进行人权访问

In Colombia, the BWA team had meetings with the Peace and Justice Commission of CEDECOL. The BWA learned of the commission?s role in human rights documentation and advocacy, where it seeks to document the impact of human rights violations on Protestant churches, communities, groups and individuals. �The commission also runs a Peace Sanctuary Churches Program, where local congregations are encouraged to develop peace ministries in their communities.� The Women?s Network helps women to develop networks of peace and related gender issues of conflict. The peace commission also inaugurated a training program, the Biblical Bases for Peace, a certificate program run by UNIBAUTISTA, based in Cali.

布埃纳文图拉
Alan Marr, Chair of the BWA Commission on Peace, said Buenaventura ?was like a photo that had been decolorized. The place looked sad and depressed.?

教会牧师阿加皮托告诉妇女事务局代表团，2007年，两枚炸弹在他的教堂前爆炸，其中一枚是在第一枚炸弹爆炸几分钟后爆炸的。他解释说，这是游击队常用的策略，先引爆一枚较小的炸弹，吸引围观者，然后再引爆第二枚较大的炸弹，造成多人死亡。像这样的爆炸还被安排在与该市另一地区的毒品大流动相吻合的时间，用爆炸造成的混乱来分散警察的注意力。

阿加皮托还说，两名牧师在几周内被谋杀。其他牧师收到威胁电话。在讲道时，有人向教堂投掷石块。教堂成为黑帮敲诈的目标，因为人们认为他们有钱。由于安全原因，许多牧师不得不从一个地方搬到另一个地方。

代表团了解到，在哥伦比亚，95%以上的谋杀案都没有将人绳之以法。控制城市的黑帮为了控制自己的地盘和抢夺其他黑帮的地盘而冷酷无情。许多人被迫迁离该地区。

Agapito said that on one single day 19 bombs exploded in Buenaventura. ?Every time I leave my home I would say goodbye to my family.? He showed a DVD of the chaos following a bombing in 2007. Five were killed, including two police officers.

Lorenzo Bonilla, pastor of Community Baptist Church in Buenaventura, with whom the delegation was supposed to meet along with families who suffered from gang violence, informed the BWA team that the gangs told him the team was not welcome in the area. It was explained that permission must be sought from gangs for outsiders to visit their ?territory.? After informing them of the BWA visit, Bonilla said he was told a resounding ?no?.

Attempts to organize alternatives to the gangs have been greeted with violence. One pastor who worked with the police to get a youth group going was killed. Churches that discourage children and youth from joining an armed group have been ?punished? by the gang. Many people have stopped going to church. Gang members are well known as they grew up in the town. ?We know their families,? the BWA was told.

毒品帮派和暴力
The fight against the drug cartels led to the decentralization of the drug trade. It was like hitting a hornet?s nest with a hammer, the BWA delegation was told. Smaller, more nimble groups took over. These groups are more flexible and mobile and are harder to track down. Buenaventura has become a center of violence because gangs are fighting a constant territorial war over control of the port. Because of this, basic human services such as education and healthcare are at a minimal standard. The gangs do not allow ?outsider? teachers and doctors to come into their ?territory.?

When asked why he stayed despite opportunities to leave, Bonilla said, ?Because the city needs us.?

布埃纳文图拉的未来看起来很严峻。它是毒品贩运者的战略港口所在地，武装团体正在争夺控制权。失业率为75%，使贫困更加严重。许多城市居民将贩毒视为一种谋生手段，特别是在有大家庭的情况下，这在布埃纳文图拉并不罕见。

BWA团队在布埃纳文图拉会见了一群浸信会牧师。贝内迪托牧师说，他的教徒们正在遭受痛苦。一位妇女在一天之内失去了六位家人。她的大家庭中还有14名成员被杀害。贝内迪托不得不为自己的生命而逃亡。在两位牧师被杀时，他被杀手追赶，他不得不在卡利躲藏起来，直到安全返回。

另一位牧师Ermin说，在过去的五年里，该镇的暴力事件不断增加，要挑战帮派成员变得越来越困难。在某些街区，不允许外人进入。第三位牧师亚历山大称，他知道有三个帮派成员通过他的教会的事工成为基督徒。

这群浸礼会牧师确定的需求包括：饥饿和贫困救济、就业、替代毒品交易的创收方式、避难场所、教育、创伤治疗以及城市居民的赋权。

Ermin牧师描述了一场有帮派成员参加的足球比赛。这被描述为在接触帮派成员方面的一个成功。

在卡利，BWA团队会见了一群主要是年轻人的人。讨论围绕着哥伦比亚政府与哥伦比亚主要反叛组织FARC之间目前的和平进程展开。该小组列举了和平进程需要解决的六个关切领域：农业和土地改革（已经取得了一些进展）、广泛的政治参与、解除武装、毒品、受害者权利和执行。

还与哥伦比亚浸信会教派的领导人举行了会议，他们向妇女事务局的团队介绍了计划为父母在暴力事件中被杀害的牧师的子女举办的营地。

Members of the BWA delegation were Raimundo Barreto, BWA director of Freedom and Justice; Alan Marr, chair of the BWA Commission on Peace;� and William Mathis, a BWA peace commission member.