Trinidad explains the military did not fully abide by the Peace Accords during the resettlment process.
- Chapter:
- Chapter 7: Peace Accords & Post-War
- Interviewee:
- Trinidad
Transcription
The first thing I remember about the Peace Accords is that they called for a ceasefire, that we had to come resettle, that we had to take possession of the towns that we’d come from, and that we had to have a decent home to live, that we had to own land. Some people got land and other people didn’t, because if a husband got land the wife would not, and the law said everyone had to have some land to work on.
But, what happened with the government, with the ones who participated in the Peace Accords? Some people got the land, and they told them to conform with that. But they didn’t get any help with land development, or the supplies and loans that the Peace Accords said we needed to have access to. They gave away the land but they didn’t provide those other conditions. That was left out as if it wasn’t included in the Accords. What ceased was the fire, the bombs, and they told us we could resettle.
But at the beginning it wasn’t that way. The Peace Accords were there, but they came to do their desembarcos when people came here to resettle. Because I can tell you about about a desembarco that happened.