Yolanda Perea Mosquera is standing on a podium before a crowd in central Bogotá talking passionately into a microphone.
“colombia is ours,” she says. “Peace is ours, and it depends on all of us.”
She is speaking in a convention centre packed with 1,400 victims of the armed conflict.
The conflict with Farc guerrillas saw more than 200,000 people killed, and wracked colombia for more than 50 years until the signing of a peace deal in November 2016. However another left-wing guerrilla group ELN, as well as dissident Farc rebels, criminal gangs and state security forces, are still at arms.
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There are more than eight million victims of the conflict in total, and those gathered at the convention centre are survivors of crimes such as kidnapping, torture, forced displacement and sexual assault.
Ms Perea is a survivor of the armed conflict herself. She was sexually assaulted by a Farc guerrilla when she was 11 years old. The attack happened in 1997 while she was at home sleeping in Río Sucio, a remote town in the northern Chocó region.
Her mother confronted the Farc over her daughter's assault,…
