“The Government’s commitment is to contribute proactively, so that in the two years that we evaluate it will be profitable, successful, and consolidating Human Rights,” said the Minister of Justice and Institutional Transparency, Iván Lima.
He positively valued the recent signing in this city of an agreement valid for a biennium with a mission of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to observe compliance with the recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI).
This team investigated the violence unleashed in the Andean-Amazonian nation during the coup d’état against then-president Evo Morales and after the imposition of the de facto government in 2019.
According to Lima, the objective of installing the Meseg-Bolivia is to speed up and provide transparency to the implementation of the GIEI recommendations, published on August 17, 2021, after several months of unrestricted investigations.
The GIEI experts described the bloody events of 2019 as massacres, they also denounced that summary executions and serious human rights violations occurred in Bolivia by order of the executive headed by Jeanine Áñez (November 2019-November 2020).
“It is a moment of consolidation of what we have called memory, truth and justice,” Lima said in reference to the signing of the document that will regulate the follow-up work.
He recalled that the president, Luis Arce, when he received the GIEI report in 2021, made a commitment to the country to comply with all its recommendations, and what is happening now is part of that responsibility.
Several of these assignments have already been fulfilled, such as the delivery of an economic amount to the relatives of those who died in the massacres, the provision of a trust, job placement, delivery of study scholarships, food vouchers and cancellation of medical expenses.
Likewise, the decentralized public institution Service for the Prevention of Torture (Sepret) has already been disassociated from the Justice portfolio.
The headline confirmed that other suggestions such as the construction of the house of memory and the development of a national debate against racism and discrimination are in process.
Lima commented that it is a cry of the Bolivian people to know the historical truth of the events, establish responsibilities and apply the corresponding sanctions for events that left mourning and pain among the families.
The minister emphasized that all the facilities and unrestricted respect for the work of the Meseg-Bolivia will be provided, as happened with the GIEI.
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