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This chapter analyses attempts made by different armed actors to ask forgiveness from the Bojayá community after it suffered immense violence. Through internal (coerced) movements, Bojayá had been constituted in a variety of ways, but always as racialized and as other. The chapter analyses ‘the Black Christ of Bojayá’ gifted to the community by members of FARC as a symbol of this positionality, and to analyse how political forgiveness can be a manifestation of the power of a victim, but also a reconstituted form of racial domination. This analysis shows that even if the concept of forced migration can be useful for formulating policies of temporal protection, it is not for understanding intersections of structural, institutional and everyday developments. Accordingly, through socio-historic and ethnographic interventions, the case of Bojayá and the Black Christ illustrates the reproduced coloniality at play in understandings of belonging dominating the Colombian peace process. Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora and Jerónimo Botero Marino. (2022). “Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia”. In Postcoloniality and Forced Migration, Mobility, Control, Agency. Edited by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui and Eva Magdalena Stambøl. Bristol University Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/postcoloniality-and-forced-migration