President Gabriel Boric announced this Wednesday, within the framework of the public account, a National Search Plan for disappeared detainees, as well as a Comprehensive Agenda for Truth, Justice and Reparation for victims of the social outbreak.
“Dear compatriots, next year will be the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état and there are still many debts that we carry,” he stressed.
“We will continue to search tirelessly for the disappeared through a National Search Plan led by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. We are committed to truth and justice,” he added.
The president also indicated that the government will recover and revalue the memory sites in various parts of Chile so that they have conditions that allow them to “show the new generations the intrinsic and intractable value of respect for democracy and human rights.”
The plan will begin this year with seven memory spaces, including the Los Ríos Memory House and the José Domingo Cañas site.
social outburst
The president also remembered the victims of state repression in the framework of the 2019 social outbreak. In fact, at the beginning of the speech he recalled the deaths of Manuel Rebolledo, Alex Núñez, Romario Veloz and Cristian Valdebenito in the framework of the social outbreak.
Manuel Rebolledo, 23, was run over by a Navy vehicle on October 21, 2019, in front of the Libertad de Talcahuano town. For the case, the marine Leonardo Caamaño Medina is formalized.
Álex Núñez was 39 years old when he was killed after being beaten by Carabineros officials on October 20, 2019 in the Maipú commune.
Romario Velozo, a 26-year-old Ecuadorian, was shot dead by soldiers in front of the La Serena mall on October 20, 2019.
Meanwhile, Cristian Valdebenito, a 48-year-old worker from Puente Alto, died, apparently from the impact of a tear gas canister on the head, on March 6, 2020 in Plaza Baquedano -also known as Italia or de la Dignidad- in the protest framework.
These deaths “forced us to remember that in our country there are times when protesting ends up paying with life. And we cannot continue to allow it. Truth, justice, memory, reparation and non-repetition are our commitments as a government,” he said at the beginning. .
Later, he stated:
“During the social outbreak we experienced the worst crisis in terms of Human Rights in the last 30 years. Various national and international institutions reported the existence of serious abuses and violations of human rights that left a balance of pain that, as Chileans, we must assume and compensate,” he stressed.
For this reason, the government has presented a Comprehensive Agenda for Truth, Justice and Reparation for victims in the context of the social outbreak, which includes reformulating health programs for victims and increasing grace pensions.
“Together with this, over the next few months we will form a Comprehensive Reparation Board in which Senator Fabiola Campillai, present in this room, will participate as coordinator, and to whom I want to acknowledge her commitment, her tenacity and her unwavering will,” he stressed.
“Together with these measures, we will promote a bill to protect human rights defenders,” he assured.
