Former Minister and Human Rights, Foreign Relations and former Presidents of the Council of Ministers expressed their energetic opposition to the recently promulgated Amnesty Lawwhich allows military and police involved in crimes against humanity committed between 1980 and 2000 may be released, among which stand out Daniel Urresti, Martín Rivas And more. The statement was signed by Diego García-Sayán Larrabure, Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, Eda Rivas Franchini, César Landa Arroyo, Harold Forsyth, Juan José Meier Espinosa, Solomon Lerner Ghitis, Juan Jiménez Mayor, Aldo Vásquez, Francisco Eguiguren Praeli, Daniel Figallo Rivadeneyra, Ana Neyra Neyra Zegarra, Eduardo Vega Luna, María Soledad Pérez Tello, Walter Albán Peralta and Eliana Revollar Añaños.
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“Amnesty’s law recently approved by the Congress and promulgated by the Executive power It constitutes, due to its content and scope, a manifest infraction of the international obligations assumed by Peru. Violate rights protected by the Constitution and treaties seriously compromises the international responsibility of the State. Its validity would imply an inadmissible setback in the fight against impunity and isolate Peru of the democratic community of nations, contravening the principles of article 44 of the Constitution and article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the right of treaties, ”says the pronouncement.
The former signatory ministers considered that this initiative, promoted by Jorge Montoyapromoted from the Constitution Commission by Fernando Rospigliosi and promulgated by Dina Boluarteconstitutes an attack on human rights and against judicial processes that seek justice for the relatives of the victims killed by the State during the internal armed conflict.
“We reject the law approved by the Congress and promulgated by the Executive for constituting a serious violation of the Constitution, of the American Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. We urge all democratic political forces that, within the framework of the electoral process next year, they are publicly committed to leaving this norm without effect, in respect of the principles that govern every democratic society and the constitutional state of law. We reaffirm that justice in Peru must be administered promptly, impartially and respectfully of due process, with tax investigations and judicial resolutions subject to the principle of presumption of innocence and free of all political interference or impunity, ”concludes the statement of the former ministers.
Department of former ministers against Amnesty Law | Photo: Dissemination.
Amnesty Law would allow Daniel Urresti, members of the Colina Group and other Human Rights Violators
The Amnesty Law It will have a direct effect on those military and police processed or sentenced for crimes against human rights during the internal armed conflict. According to Carlos Riveralawyer of Legal Defense Institute (IDL), there are more than 300 police and military who could benefit from this benefit with the signing of Dina Boluarte.
In April 2023, the Judiciary sentenced 12 years in prison to Daniel Urresti for the murder of the journalist Hugo Bustios and the attempted homicide against Eduardo Rojas in 1988, after determining his direct participation in the attack. Although the sentence is firm, when he turned 70 in 2026 he could invoke the recent amnesty law.
During the dictatorship Alberto Fujimorithe Colina paramilitary group perpetrated crimes against humanity as the massacres of Altos neighborhoods and The Cantutafor which several of its members were convicted. Your operational boss, Martín Rivasaccumulates multiple sentences for murders and disappearances, and in 2027 he will turn 70, which would allow him to request amnesty under the new law, despite the seriousness of his crimes.
Telmo Hurtado He headed the military patrol that murdered between 61 and 69 residents, including women, children and the elderly during the Accomarca massacre. After escaping to USAhe was extradited and sentenced in 2016 to 23 years in prison, sentence confirmed in 2018. Now, with the new standard, Hurtado joins the list of those who could request his release when he turned 70 years old. Although, it is worth mentioning, this would only happen in 2031, still quite distant year.
