He added that it would expose the country to be questioned for the breach of its international duty to humanity, to prevent the repetition of those horrors suffered during the years of the civil-military dictatorship, between 1973 and 1985.
The publication criticized the successive initiatives of the CA leader, Senator Guido Manini, to reestablish the Expiry Law that leaves crimes against humanity unpunished as if they were ordinary prescribable and now release convicted ex-military personnel.
“It expresses the intention of benefiting torturers, murderers and disappearances, pretending the pandemic, by the crooked way of rendering the penalties illusory and putting criminal proceedings at risk”, underlines the prestigious media.
The most recent step in that direction was the letter from a so-called Montevideo Forum, whose most notorious spokesperson, the writer Mercedes Vigil, “shows with less modesty the intention to benefit the torturers,” and to whom President Luis Lacalle Pou received to hear “this nauseating claim.”
Two days ago, the Frente Amplio Political Table summoned the current president and the former president and leader of the Colorado Party, Julio María Sanguinetti to ratify or rectify the statement that appeared in a press outlet in the sense that they would have already given “the ok does a few months ”for the approval of the aforementioned project.
Of the 40 repressors subjected to trial or sentenced for crimes of the dictatorship, 26 remain in a penitentiary for themselves, and 14 are currently under house arrest, after a forensic medical report and the opinion of a judge regarding their state of health.
Brecha alluded to international legal criteria on the inescapable obligation of the democratic State to investigate, judge responsible and without admitting in such cases, “neither amnesty, nor pardon, nor res judicata, nor statute of limitations, and impunity for these crimes implies a breach of duty. to protect fundamental rights ”.
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