Human Rights organizations repudiated the installation of “hate speech and a denial that seeks to vindicate the actions of genocide” planned by the last military dictatorship, in a document released this Friday on the occasion of the commemoration of the Day of Democracy and Human Rights, in which the signatory entities raise their “concern for an illegitimate and illegal debt that conditions the lives of Argentines.”
“This December 10 we celebrate a new anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights sanctioned by the United Nations in 1948 and coincidentally the continuity of the democratic state in Argentina, recovered on December 10, 1983” begins the text released this Friday.
“There are 38 years of struggles for the Never Again to the Military Coups and the atrocious crimes of State Terrorism with its sequel of forced disappearances, deaths, appropriation of children born in captivity, jail and the exile of thousands of popular militants”, points to the document.
“There are 38 years of struggles for the Never Again Military Coups and the atrocious crimes of State Terrorism” says the proclamation
Sign the proclamation Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founder Line, Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Relatives of the disappeared and detained for political reasons, Relatives and companions of the 12 of the Holy Cross, Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, Argentine League for Human Rights .
The declaration is also signed by the La Matanza Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, the Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights, the Argentine Historical and Social Memory Foundation, the North Zone Provincial Memory and Justice Commission, the Center for Legal and Social Studies and the Good Memory Association.
“In recent months, the installation of hate-laden speeches on the political and media agenda has been witnessed with concern,” says the text.
“In recent months, the installation in the political and media agenda of hateful speeches, characterized by a denial that seeks deep down to vindicate those actions of genocide and invalidate human rights policies,” adds the text.
“This speech contains messages of profound discrimination against indigenous peoples who fight for their rights, against young people from popular neighborhoods, against diversity collectives, and through their spokesmen, amplified by the hegemonic media, they encourage the worst social violence. and institutional in democracy “continues.
And he emphasizes: “We have gone through four years of the neoliberal government with strong struggles and resistance, which delayed the policies of Memory, Truth and Justice, cut the social rights of the population and left as a heavy inheritance a brutal external indebtedness with a loan from the International Monetary Fund. which is conditioning the current and future social and economic life of Argentina “.
The entities express, “concern about this illegitimate and illegal debt and we reiterate our support for the entire initiative aimed at overcoming this dependence and recovering the economic and financial sovereignty necessary to eradicate the extremely high levels of poverty and indigence that exist.”
The signatories consider “particularly serious the actions of the security forces in the different jurisdictions that, regardless of the current regulations, continue with illegal repressive practices, the easy trigger, torture in police stations, such as the murders of Lucas González and Alejandro Martinez “
“The pending debts of democracy are increased by the obstructionist attitude of the opposition blocs to the National Government. Take as an example their refusal to treat the extension of law 26,160, which began in 2006 the survey of ancestral territories of indigenous peoples and the suspension of evictions “states the letter.
“This delay constitutes a setback for the recovery of the rights of the native peoples, historically discriminated against,” adds the document.
Along the same lines, the actions of the security forces in the different jurisdictions are considered “of particular gravity which, apart from the current regulations, continue with illegal repressive practices, the easy trigger, torture in police stations, such as the murders of Lucas González in Barracas, Alejandro Martínez in San Clemente, province of Buenos Aires, or the young Mapuche Elías Garay in El Bolsón, Rio Negro, in whose territory surrounded by the security forces, the local police did not prevent the attack by civil servants that ended his life and seriously injured another colleague. “
These events “cannot be dissociated from the repeated punitive messages produced by candidates and officials of different political colors promoting state violence. The emphasis on punishment and the use of prison as a generalized response led us to the current state of catastrophe of the jails and police stations “.
“It is time to recover the initiative in order to face the denialist and neoliberal attacks present, as a strategy of struggle and a necessary path to open the way to the great political, economic and social transformations”, the text claims.
“We consider unacceptable the situation of the numerous political prisoners for whom we have been tirelessly demanding their immediate release,” the manifesto underlines.
The different powers of the State are also called upon “to adopt all the necessary measures to put an end to such a heinous persecution.”
“We are currently moved by the arrest of Facundo Molares in Chubut, for which we made numerous efforts to bring him back to his homeland, when he was detained by the coup authorities in Bolivia, and for whom we request both his freedom and the rejection of the extradition requested by the Colombian government “says the text.
It is added along the same lines “The experience of struggle of human rights organizations, the achievement of the Truth and Justice Memory Policies, the convictions of more than a thousand genocidal victims, all this has been achieved from a constant preaching and a permanent articulation with all the organizations of our people “.
And he points out that “it is time to recover the initiative in order to confront the denialist and neoliberal attacks present, as a strategy of struggle and a necessary path to open the way to the great political, economic and social transformations that our 30,000 disappeared detained companions dreamed of.”
