The commissioner of the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights, Andrea Pochakregretted that the president Dina Boluarte promulgate the Amnesty Law on August 13, despite the IDH cut He ordered him to stop the officialization of the norm in order to guarantee the search for justice for cases Altos and Cantuta neighborhoods. In that sense, Pochak warned that Peru integrates the ranking of the countries with the highest contempt of the IDH court and warned that there are more than 20 cases.
During an interview for RPP, the commissioner recalled that the IDH cut He spoke in 2001 against amnesties for crimes against humanity because “they are incompatible with the American convention and cannot be in force.” Along the same lines, he stressed that, for 20 years, the international agency supervises from the decisions taken in the Peru.
You can see: Pedro Castillo: Supreme Court will evaluate order to cancel preventive detention this Thursday, August 21
“This has to do with several sentences, at least two, of Altos and Cantuta neighborhoodsthat the Inter -American Court issued as of 2001. And these are contempt. Peru has already accumulated more than 20 contempt to the Inter -American Court of Human Rights and this places Peru in a particular situation. In the region there are very few countries that have this record record. We regret from the Inter -American Commission that Peru integrates the ranking of the countries with more contempt of the Inter -American Court, “he emphasized.
On the other hand, the IACHR member recalled as many times as the international organism aimed at Peru of contempt to the treaties of which, as in the indult to the ex -dictator Alberto Fujimori and the Crime prescription law against humanity driven in the Congress In 2024.
The autograph promoted from the Constitution Commission of the Congress – Leaded by the Fujimorista Fernando Rospigliosi – grants “amnesty” to the members of the Armed Forces, PNP and Self -Defense Committees processed by alleged human rights violations between 1980 and 2000. Likewise, it also provides “humanitarian reasons” to freedom to the persons sentenced for the same reasons.
You can see: Congress: they propose to repeal amnesty law that favors DD rapists. HH
On the other hand, Pochak mentioned that it will now remain in the hands of the Judicial Power magistrates if it decides to apply the norm and urged to respect the treaties of which Peru is part. “In this case, the law is not constitutional, it is not conventional. And the judges should not apply it.”
“They are benefiting torturers, rapists, murderers”
At another time, the commissioner of the IACHR questioned the rule and role that the Congress at the origin of the amnesty law And he said that this would benefit “murderers, torturers, rapes and kidnappers” who participated in the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000.
“It is a law that was treated in the Congress. At that time we said that it was a law incompatible with human rights treaties and that they had not listened to the victims. Because here what we are trying to show the Peruvian people is that those who are benefiting is torturers, it is rapists, it is murderersunder the clothing of a legal term, of a political term, The torturers, kidnappers, women’s rapists are benefiting with freedom to freedom.“He said.
“We regret that the Peruvian authorities of the Congress and Government They ally with sectors that what they are looking for is impunity for these murderers. It really puts Peru and puts Peru’s democracy at strong risk, “he said.
Amnesty Law would harm more than 600 cases in research
The National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH) warned that the approval of this law impacts 156 cases with definitive sentences for serious crimes against human rights that occurred between 1980 and 2000, in addition to more than 600 judicial processes that are currently going on process.
“(…) constitutes an affront to the right to truth, justice and repair of thousands of victims of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, torture, sexual violations and massacres perpetrated in that period,” he said.
You can see: JNJ: files on Keiko Fujimori and Patricia Benavides are among the 1,200 missing files
Meanwhile, Carlos RiveraLawyer of the Institute of Legal Defense (IDL), said that approximately 300 military and police who have been tried or convicted of human rights violations could be favored by this law. At this time, the decision on its application is in the hands of the judges.
“In many cases in which the so -called impunity law was sought, only one prospered. In the majority, the Judiciary resolved that it should be acted by sentence, which implies that these requests were dismissed. With the amnesty law it is very likely that the same thing happens, although the circumstances are not identical,” he recalled.
Commissioner of the IACHH
Meanwhile, when consulted by the decision of the DINA BOLUARTE GOVERNMENT To promulgate the norm and attacks of the president to the Court IdH, Andrea Pochak described the position of the Executive as a “contempt”.
“That position is really a clear contempt to the decisions of the Inter -American Court. The Inter -American Court in 2001 spoke against amnesties for the crimes of that humanity committed in Peru,” he exclaimed.
Similarly, he stressed the consequences that the promulgation of the norm would bring, such as the “strong resistance of the victims who are not willing to sustain impunity.” “From the Inter -American Commission we are absolutely concerned about this clear contempt, this clear confrontation of Peru that publicly says that they respect the commitments, for the protection and promotion of human rights and then perform these acts clearly contrary to the standards of international law,” he said.
