3. For the Right to Life and Democratic Opening.

Political prisoners were set free and the use of torture as means of interrogation by the military was verified. The evidence of torture was recorded in reports by international Human Rights missions, which allowed the assignation of responsibilities of the state. In response to this, high commanders of the Armed Forces came up with a formula to avoid witnesses of Human Rights violations and replaced the means of detention and torture of the so called "internal enemies", with physical elimination or abduction, widening for these purposes the use of civil personnel, indirectly linked with the Armed Forces. This was the time of selective assassinations of popular leaders and politicians of the left, and of the abduction of people. These crimes ran parallel with the augmentation of the peasant self-defense groups, the appearance of the MAS and other paramilitary groups to whom many massacres are credited.
This change in the means of violations coincided with the drive by the Committee for the creation of sectionals in several regions. This was hindered by the assassination in the Magdalena Medio zone of the President of the Permanent Committee of Puerto Berrio (Antioquia), who was killed in the Worker's Park of this town on January 27, 1983. With this begins the campaign to exterminate Human Rights defenders.
The Third National Forum, "for the Right to Life, Peace and Democratic Opening " is central to this period as leads the action to dismantle paramilitary groups, for political and social reform, as requirements for peace.
It is then that talk of dialogue with guerrilla forces begins.