Commander Omaira Elena Vasquez on behalf of National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN) women guerrillas has sent fraternal, revolutionary greeting and the brotherhood of the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN), specially from their women, to Kurdistan Women’s Community, KJK.

ELN is the second-largest guerrilla group after FARC giving an armed struggle in Colombia.

Negotiations between the ELN and the Colombian state were set to begin in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, on October 27. The talks were, however, postponed after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos laid the release of Governor Odin Sanchez held captive by the ELN as a condition for the beginning of talks as ELN had already released many they held prisoner for peace talks. ELN and the Colombian government had previously sat at a table of negotiations in 2002 and 2007. ELN Commander Omaira Elena Vasquez, who sent the message to KJK, is one of the chief negotiators with the Colombian government.

The ELN Commander said the followings in the message addressed to the Kurdish Women's Freedom Struggle:

“I want to tell you that you are an example for us in this struggle of dignity against our class enemies, against the people’s enemies.

We want to tell you about the situation in our country. You already know that Colombia is a very rich country in natural resources, and also rich on the side of thousands of male workers and female workers.

We are a country of the rainbow because on its territory men and women walk with their hopes and dreams, black men and women, Indians, half-blood. But we also know that we are the second most unequal country in the world. We know that Colombia is dependent on the North-American imperialism and that we have a traitorous oligarchy that only pays tribute to the imperial needs, an oligarchy that denied to us the right to build the homeland that we wanted. Hence we have been fighting for half a century for justice and equity, but now, in this year 2016 we committed to the people of Colombia and the international community to initiate a public dialogue and negotiation table, where with the support of the whole society we can walk, and reach the end of the road to true peace, that is a peace with justice and dignity.

That’s why, dear partners, we want to invite you to join us in this process. We will be starting our public phase in Ecuador. We hope to count on you in order to continue to provide us with your thoughts and experience.

Through you we extend this invitation to all the Kurdish people, man and women.

Dear partners, it’s only this message to know that we are twinned in the fight against the same enemy, to make know that you there, we here, and all women of the world unite our voices to our man’s voices, and we also unite our thought to make real what we said that “another world is possible”. And finally we want to say that we add our voice to the chorus of you to say that “my honor is my freedom.”