Memory of the Silenced The Red Dance

In the mid1980s peace initiatives between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group FARC led the latter to disband after two decades of fighting and establish a legalpolitical party the Union Patriótica Patriotic Union As the UP met with some successs in local elections it became a target of rightwing death squads and paramilitaries So far 3000 UP members have been murdered or have disappeared making it a case of political genocide unparalleled in the world The documentary The Red Dance views through the memories of survivors and relatives of victims this period of terror and assassination While FARC has reverted to war a petition is pending before the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights IACHR regarding human rights violations by the State of Colombia