The Cabildo Abierto party, led by the ultra-conservative senator Guido Manini Ríos, will try once again to repeal Law 18,831, which made crimes committed by the military during the dictatorship crimes against humanity, that they never expire and can be prosecuted even until the present day.
The legislation, enacted on October 27, 2011 and published a few days later, orders the establishment of “the full exercise of the State’s punitive claim for crimes committed in application of State terrorism until March 1, 1985, including in article 1 of Law No. 15,848, of December 22, 1986”.
It adds that no term, procedural, prescription or expiration, will be computed, “in the period between December 22, 1986 and the validity of this law, for the crimes referred to in article 1 of this law.”
Its third article declares that the crimes committed within the aforementioned periods will be considered crimes against humanity in accordance with the international treaties to which the Republic is a party.
Open Cabildo will try, once, to annul the above, so that the soldiers who are still alive and who have not paid for their crimes, go unpunished. As published Montevideo Portalthe new advance will be made through the Chamber of Deputies, since in Senators they were not successful.
The new project is promoted by the deputy Carlos Testa, it is signed by Nazmi Camargo, Elsa Capillera, Silvana Pérez Bonavita, Rafael Menéndez and Willman Caballero, all deputies and lobbyists.
