Reparations are a fundamental topic in law; not only in human rights but also in the basis of traditional areas such as civil law. In general terms, the expectation of reparation in law, produces a huge amount of cases and lawyers specialize in achieving that plaintiffs, when they claim against their aggressors, a tort would be ordered by a court of law. This article would like to question the way in which torts reparations are understood in cases of gross human rights violations, having as an example the Colombian armed conflict. In this paper I sustain that the classical/ individualistic vision of the reparations does not contribute to create a collective conscience about the implications of our armed conflict; the raising of a collective conscience must go through an ethical discussion about the truth that is being revealed. This ethical reflection has the advantage that it treats armed conflict not only as an issue of very few, but rather as a phenomena in which society loose something.