The relatives of the victims of the crimes that occurred in the 80 ‘and 90’, in addition to the victims of the social protests of the Government of Manuel Merino and Dina Boluarte They gathered in front of the Ombudsman’s Office, to make their voice of protest and especially deliver a letter to the Ombudsman, Josué Gutiérrezrequesting withdrawing the demand for unconstitutionality against the Amnesty Law which has presented on September 12 before the Constitutional Court.
“If not withdrawing the demand presented and the TC resolves that Amnesty’s law is constitutional, it would be burying our hopes of justice, they would be running over 4 decades of continuous struggle as family members, they would be complicit in these criminals,” says the letter.
Family members specify that behind this initiative there is the interest that this amnesty law is declared precisely constitutional, leaving the judges and prosecutors prevented from exercising diffuse control, they argue that such a situation would leave hundreds of families in absolute defenselessness.
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Congressman Luque summons Josué Gutiérrez
Congresswoman Ruth Luque also participated in the plant in front of the headquarters of the Ombudsman, she said that “the presence of Josué Gutiérrez has completely distorted what the Ombudsman’s Office represents in our country”; In addition, he began to withdraw the lawsuit against amnesty law to demonstrate that he really believes in unconstitutionality.
Another that was present in the protest was the former congressman, Indira Huilca, daughter of Pedro Huilca, former unionist leader murdered more than 32 years ago, she said that there would be 700 victims with sentenced cases that could be harmed to declare the law of Amnesty constitutional.
“That is a worrying number that were violated in their rights in the 80s in our country, and that with a lot of effort achieved justice, because we are talking about 700 sentenced cases, proven by justice in a full way and that today is being sought they are in total impunity.”
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The voice of families
Luzdilan Camargo, mother of Inti Sotelo, a young man killed in the social protests of the Government of Manuel Merino, said that having spent more than 5 years of the death of his son has not yet found justice.
“The word justice in Peru are unlikely, so difficult to achieve, we are going at a turtle pace, the case does not advance, like the other cases, there is no one stopped”
Finally, Gisela Ortiz, representative of the relatives of the La Cantuta case, described as a political plot what there would be between the Executive, the Congress, the TC and the Ombudsman, so that the amnesty is imposed
The indications that there was behind an interest away from unconstitutionality was born following the statements that gave an attachment of human rights of the Ombudsman last April in the Congress of the Republic. Carlos Fernández Millán, indicated at that time that “there is a great concern because they have passed about 30 years and the justice system has not been able to resolve these cases, harming many police and military families” thus supporting Amnesty’s law.
