Relatives and victims of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner cried out this Thursday so that the repression that occurred at that time is not forgotten and asked for justice, on the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the so-called Archive of Terror.
Source: EFE
Under this name are known the nearly three tons of secret documents from the police bodies related to events before and after Stroessner came to power and which were found on December 22, 1992 in a police station in Lambaré.
Three decades later, the lawyer and human rights activist Martín Almada, considered the discoverer of these files, told EFE that in Paraguay there is “a facade democracy”.
For Almada, who at the age of 85 attended an event organized as a result of this date in the Palace of Justice of Asunción, the discovery of the file was “to be a starting point for the demand for justice” in the country.
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His second wife and director of the Museum of Memories, María Stella Cáceres, lamented, for her part, that the Paraguayan State “remains absent in recognition of all that has happened.”
“We, Martín Almada and I, continue in the campaign because we have not found justice in Paraguay,” he declared, citing reports from the Prosecutor’s Office and the Human Rights Coordinator of Paraguay (Codehupy) that account for the “scandalous list of judgments that are on file”.
In this context, the executive secretary of Codehupy, Dante Leguizamón, warned that Paraguay “has made very little progress in sanctioning people linked to the dictatorship.”
“The coup d’état only removed one person and not the power group or power groups,” he stated, alluding to the overthrow of Stroessner, and underlined the fact that the Colorado Party, which supported that regime for nearly 35 years, “continues in power.”
