:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/QDQHXEP7SVCRDJROVMELWNT2AM.jpg "Edilia Mendoza Roa, symbol of the agrarian struggle and human rights, has died 1")
The winner of the recognition for “A Life of Struggle” from the National Human Rights Award died on the weekend of February 19 following a cancer with whom he has dealt since the pandemic.
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Con more than 30 years of work In favor of human rights, Edilia Mendoza Roa has encouraged and supported groups of fishermen, artisans and miners, the work she has developed during this period has not only been attributed to the recognition by the national prize, but also enabled its direct participation in the enactment of laws. 160 from 1994 “Land reform”; Law 731 of 2002, on rural women and Law 2071 of 2020, financial aid for agricultural, small and forest producers.
The death of the Colombian was mourned by the official report of the Land Restitution Unit where they expressed that “With immense sadness we say goodbye to Edilia Mendoza Roa, ua fighting woman, a proud peasant and the force that paved the way for rural reform. His legacy will live on in our hearts.”
Thanks to its more than 30 years of work in favor of Human Rights; Thanks to joint work with peasant, Afro and indigenous populations and groups of fishermen, artisans and miners, Mendoza has been awarded the National DD Prize. HH in the category “A life of struggle” on October 19, 2022.
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During the awards ceremony, Mendoza said that “when they tell me that something is not possible, I insist on the impossible (…) it is very important to build agrarian law and in Colombia and it is worth living to serve human rights.”
The work consecrated by Mendoza was created thanks to the work carried out by the National Association of Peasant Users (Anuc), organization that chaired. After this relevant achievement, columnist Beatriz Vanegas shared a review of her life where she not only dedicated her work from a social perspective, but as a person.
“Edilia Mendoza Roa had eleven brothers and sisters, as they say, a peasant family,” Vanegas pointed out.
According to Vanegas, Edilia Mendoza began her training in Barrancabermeja, at Magdalena Medio Santander. During the 1980s, in his role as a student, he understood the need for organization which led her to be part of the Sincelejo line of Anuc.
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At that time, the Sincelejo line was considered the most rebellious, hundreds of peasants began to talk about autonomy and this implied a detachment from the government, NGOs and all that influence that sought to co-opt the real petition lists.
“Given this position, the central government did not recognize them, but launched the stigmatization and persecution of ANUC to the point of being considered a political arm of the nascent guerrillas,” Vanegas explained in his review.
Edilia in turn traveled with the Sincelejo line to the cities of Magdalena Medio, southern Antioquia, Sucre and Córdoba. These areas, according to Vanegas, Edilia suffered the paramilitary attack against their struggles, hundreds of their companions disappeared and were murdered.
“In the 1980s he had to resist with pain the assassination of trade union leader Manuel Gustavo Chacón, among many other colleagues. He also had to survive the disastrous appearance of the Israeli mercenary Yair Klain in the premises of Barrancabermeja, who arrived in the country to train the first paramilitary groups to torture and kill the “enemies of order”, “added Vanegas.
The columnist explained during her review that Edilia retained until her last days this momentum of struggle with ANUC to obtain aqueducts, electricity and the improvement of hospitals in the territories neglected by the Government.
Vanegas added that Edilia’s close friends remember her as an active woman who was always on the phone to help solve the cases of people, rural dwellers, who were denied attention to the justice, health, education or who have found themselves threatened.
Finally, Edilia received at the Anuc house women from various parts of the territory who traveled to Bogotá, when they needed to carry out procedures or requests, many of whom, according to Vanegas, were sick “Edilia was a guide and a protector”.