Beatriz Méndez filters through loads of yellowed news sections in her little home in the Colombian capital, Bogotá. She gathered them in the course of the most recent 14 years as demonstration of her battle for equity after her child, Weimar, and her nephew, Edward, were murdered. Ms Méndez keep going saw them alive on 12 June 2004. Whenever she saw them, they were in a funeral home. They were practically unrecognizable, wounded and battered from supposed torment. Both were only 19 years of age. For three days after their vanishing, Ms Méndez and her family looked through neighborhood police headquarters and emergency clinics without much of any result. At that point came a call from a relative. "On the radio they're stating they found the collections of two guerrilla contenders in Ciudad BolÃvar
[a poor neighborhood of Bogotá], they state that one is called Edward," Ms Méndez reviews. At the point when she and her sister went to the funeral home their most noticeably awful bad dream worked out as expected. However, it didn't end there. Subsequent to bringing home her child's body, it was a stun to Ms Méndez to discover blood-recolored armed force uniform and boots inside the pack of garments the funeral home had sent her home with. For a long time, Ms Méndez was uninformed about how her child and nephew had been killed. At that point she heard a gathering of ladies chatting on a radio program about cases like those of Weimar and Edward. She connected with them and joined their group, the Mothers of False Positives (Mafapo). Bogus positives is the name given to the killings of youngsters - basically from poor families in Bogotá and its environment - did by the Colombian armed force. The military's point was to make them look like left-wing Farc renegades to help its slaughter rate and give the impression it was winning the outfitted clash against the gathering. The casualties were tricked to provincial pieces of Colombia with guarantees of openings for work, and their bodies were later discovered dead in mass graves. Some had been wearing guerrilla fatigues like those utilized by the Farc, others had weapons put in their grasp. A recent report by Colombian scholastics evaluates that up to 10,000 individuals were slaughtered in bogus positives, the dominant part somewhere in the range of 2002 and 2010. Government figures put the number a lot of lower. For longer than 10 years, Mafapo has been battling to bring those liable for the killings to equity. In October, they introduced a report before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Bogotá. The contention with Farc guerrillas saw in excess of 200,000 individuals slaughtered, and wracked Colombia for over 50 years until the marking of a harmony bargain in November 2016. Casualties of viciousness completed by either side of the outfitted clash can go to an exceptional court that was made under the harmony concurrence with the Farc rebels. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) is a transitional court framework which has been set up for a long time, and which was set up to attempt all members in the contention, be they Farc dissidents or state entertainers. The individuals who admit to their violations in advance will stay away from prison time, however will be required to contribute in different manners to compromise -, for example, taking an interest in projects to evacuate landmines, fabricate key foundation or build landmarks. As of late, the JEP has uncovered many bodies from a mass grave in the Antioquia district of Colombia as a component of its examination concerning the bogus positives. The executive of the Americas division of weight bunch Human Rights Watch, José Miguel Vivanco, says that "bogus positive killings add up to one of the most noticeably terrible scenes of mass outrage in the Western Hemisphere as of late". He says that the exhuming of mass graves may help uncover additional proof of the degree and efficient nature of these wrongdoings, while giving some alleviation to the family members who have been looking for their friends and family. "In any case, the genuine test is whether the transitional equity framework will have the option to consider responsible big bosses officials who have gotten away from equity for longer than 10 years," Mr Vivanco contends. Back at her home in Bogotá, Ms Méndez flaunts another tattoo: a representation of her late child on her shoulder. "I needed something to always remember him by. It hurt, however not as much as the agony of losing him," she says. The moms' aggregate is associated with numerous exercises, generally to assist them with managing the melancholy of losing their children. The most recent one is making woodcuts with the pictures of their child's countenances. Just as Ms Méndez, 61-year-old Blanquita Monroy is at the workshop. "It's what's helped the most with the agony over every one of these years. At the point when I begin taking a shot at the wood it assists with all the fixings, every one of my issues leave," she says. The last time Ms Monroy saw her child, Julián, was on 2 March 2008, when he left their home in Soacha - a devastated district outside Bogotá - to meet someone about an opening for work. "He disclosed to me he wouldn't be long. Be that as it may, we never got notification from him again," Ms Monroy says. She discovered a half year later that 19-year-old Julián was dead. He was found in a mass grave with around 20 other youngsters in Ocaña, a north-eastern town more than 600km (375 miles) from Bogotá and one of the principle hotspots for the bogus positive killings. "The expectation we have as Mafapo is that they [the army] come clean," she says of her desires for the moms' case at the transitional equity court. "For what reason did you execute them? Who provided the request? What's more, for what reason did they provide the request?" she reels off the inquiries she needs replied. Despite the fact that the moms are not persuaded a lot of will happen to the procedures, Ms Monroy considers it to be "a little window to the start of reality". Ms Méndez says that whatever occurs, the moms in the group won't be abandoning their mission for equity at any point in the near future. "In the event that I kick the bucket looking for reality, my battle won't have been futile," she says. "I'll be a piece of the memory and history of Colombia, for the youngsters of the bogus positive killings - particularly my child and my nephew."
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