Please allow me to slightly break the protocol and start these words speaking...

“Please allow me to slightly break the protocol and start these words speaking about a humble woman, a Colombian woman called Marfa Zabala, who has to bear the pain in her heart day in and day out.

Two decades ago, armed members of illegal groups arrived to her village, located in the Colombian Caribbean, determined to impose their rule of terror.

Before her and her small children, they murdered her husband and two other relatives; they forced her to abandon her house, and burnt everything down.

She barely managed to save the corpses from the ashes, buried them right there, and fled from her parcel with her children, empty-handed. She only carried the weight of her tragedy.

Today, Marfa Zabala is a courageous and inspiring leader; a leader of the victims who is working for peace.

Sadly, there are thousands of cases like Marfa Zabala's in Colombia.”