The environment as a victim of the armed conflict in the department of Choco

The department of Choco is one of the most biodiverse in the world, but it is also one of the most affected by the Colombian armed conflict, since it presents in one of its sub regional constant, massive and systematic violations of rights humans who have marked the macondiana reality of this beautiful and rich department, for cases such as the massacre of May2, 2002 in Bojaya, where there were a large number of victims from the person component, such as the environment, the last because the river, the forest and other components of this diversity suffered significant effects such as: soil, air, and water pollution; and consequent deforestation and devastation caused by the chemical components used by armed groups outside the law to combat their enemies. It is intended to make the environment visible as a victim of it and the factors that allow us to give it this connotation. The hermeneutical method based on the revision of doctrine, jurisprudence and norms that recognize the environment as a right was used. It is necessary to address and take into account by the entire legally organized community called the Colombian State, incurred in an international concert that the environment must be taken into account as an autonomous human right that is necessary for life, development of each of the rights and guarantees enjoyed by the associates of the rule of law today conventionalized.