The group proposed through its general secretary, Daniel Villamil, that the State officially resume, just as former president Julio María Sanguinetti established it, the day of the fallen in the fight for the defense of democratic institutions to commemorate the April 14th.
They consider that the restoration of said day is an “act of justice” since Sanguinetti established it in 1985 and that “sadly in 2006, by order of the then president Tabaré Vázquez, said official commemoration ceased to take place with the crude argument that ‘enabled the commemoration of events that occurred during a particularly fateful chapter in the life of the country,’” Villamil cites in the proposal.
He added that in this way “the memory of the people who died innocently at the hands of terrorists of democracy was underestimated and it was only in charge of recognizing victims of State terrorism.” Villamil clarifies that they were “victims” and that as a group they do not forget either “or they consider them less people than the victims killed by sedition.”
“The political parties, all of them, have that civil duty to remember all the victims of any terrorism that our Republic has suffered, so that this serves to strengthen democracy and all its people,” indicates the Colorado group.
That is why they consider it pertinent that “not only the citizens but the State, pay the tribute they deserve to those innocent police, military and civilians whose lives were taken by that subversive-terrorist group, which today, officially integrates the political party Broad Front: the National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros”, is indicated in the letter that bears the signature of Daniel Villaamil and Juan Bentancour.
On April 14, 1972, in the context of a climate of internal commotion, the National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros assassinated whom they considered to be the ideologue of the Tupamaros Hunting Command, the former Undersecretary of the Interior Armando Acosta y Lara, as well as the military officer Ernesto Motto and the policemen Oscar Delegates and Carlos Leites. This generated a strong retaliation against the MLN-T.
