In this article, I focus on the work of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (Movice) in Colombia. The work of Movice, I suggest, is an example of how the category of “victim” from international law discourse is adopted and used from below by victims of mass atrocities. I show that, through this category, Movice attempts to introduce an alternative narrative of the internal armed conflict in which the state is a perpetrator of violence against civilian population as part of a practice of elimination of political opposition through violent means. To do this, I focus on three political opportunities in which Movice deployed the category of victim between 2005 and 2016. I suggest that Movice is an example of how a movement of victims can adopt categories of international law to frame their struggles and, in doing so, infuse them with new contents.

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“自下而上”的受害者类别：哥伦比亚国家犯罪受害者转移案（MOVICE）

在本文中，我将重点介绍哥伦比亚国家犯罪受害者运动 (Movice) 的工作。我认为，Movice 的工作是一个例子，说明大规模暴行的受害者如何从下面采用和使用国际法话语中的“受害者”类别。我表明，通过这一类别，Movice 试图引入另一种内部武装冲突的叙述，在这种内部武装冲突中，国家是对平民实施暴力的肇事者，作为通过暴力手段消除政治反对派的做法的一部分。为此，我将重点放在 Movice 在 2005 年至 2016 年间部署受害者类别的三个政治机会。我认为 Movice 是一个例子，说明受害者运动如何采用国际法类别来构建他们的斗争，并在做所以，给它们注入新的内容。