Inter­na­tio­nal Support of Conscien­tious Objec­tors and Deserters

Martin Rodríguez, Colombia: The war that the country is experiencing touched my family

Video on YouTube channel Refuse to Kill

(16.05.2020) Good morning I am Martin Rodríguez Conscientious objector. The main reason for declaring myself a conscientious objector was because of my participation in youth groups from a very young age, unfortunately the war that the country is experiencing touched my family, in 92 my brother Ismael was assassinated and in 94 my brother Edwin.

Martin Rodríguez, Kolumbien: Der Krieg in meinem Land traf auch meine Familie

Video auf dem YouTube Kanal Refuse to Kill (spanisch mit englischen Untertitel)

(16.05.2020) Ich bin Martín Rodriguez, ein Kriegsdienstverweigerer. Der wichtigste Grund für meine Kriegsdienstverweigerung war meine Beteiligung an Jugendgruppen in sehr jungem Alter. Leider hat der Krieg auch meine Familie getroffen. 1992 wurde mein Bruder Ismael getötet, 1994 mein Bruder Edwin.

La Tulpa, Colombia: The antimilitarist collective speaks about militarization and patriarchal society

Video on YouTube channel Refuse to Kill

(15.05.2020) We are the ‘Colectiva Antimilitarista La Tulpa’ and today we’re gonna told you some information about us. In 2012 was created this organization as a group interested on joining forces against fascism at our country. Step by step, this movement took us to understand antimilitarism and militarization as an structural part of the State and the patriarchal society at Colombia.

Colombia: Brayan Gonzales Blanco recruited irregularly by the army

(19.02.2020) On September 2, 2019 Brayan Gonzales Blanco was irregularly recruited by the Army to perform military service in Battalion No. 13 located in the municipality of Ubalá-Cundinamarca (Colombia). He has been incorporated for five months. In the first week of February, 2020 he began the process to define his military status as a conscientious objector and requested to be released. This has led to the military authorities within the battalion exerting psychological violence on him, putting his emotional well-being at risk.

Please send support letters to the Colombian authorities: https://wri-irg.org/es/programmes/rrtk/co-support-email/2020/desacuartelamiento-para-brayan-gonzales-blanco-reclutado