He President of the National Human Rights Institution (INDDHH), Marcos Israel, pointed out that the absence of the president Luis Lacalle Pou in the act of reparation for various murders committed during the civic-military dictatorship It’s a “minor issue” and he preferred not to enter “in that discussion”.
“It was a milestone after so many years, because the sentence of the Court (Inter-American Human Rights) is from 2001,” said the member of the INDDHH for the act in which the State acknowledged its responsibility in the deaths of Luis Eduardo González, Óscar Tassino, as well as those known as the girls of april (Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio and Diana Maidanik).
Israel also said that regretted the attitude of “a part of the public” who was yesterday in the Hall of the Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace. “It’s like we take a step forward and another step back. It should have been received as a positive milestone,” she said at a press conference recorded by Tv Ciudad.
Asked about the absence of President Luis Lacalle Pou at the event, Israel said that chose to keep “80% of the glass full”, because the president of the General Assembly, Beatriz Argimón, the authorities of the Supreme Court of Justice, as well as the Executive Power, among other sectors, participated in the activity.
“It’s a minor issue. I don’t want to get into that discussion because it’s not my place“He added at the insistence on the absence of the president.
The release of archives of the dictatorship
On the other hand, Israel referred to the recent release of thousands of files from the dictatorship which were hitherto unknown.
As reported The Observeramong the rolls of microfilms with hundreds of documents there are records of political detainees, alleged collaborators, follow-ups on journalists, summaries of public officials, political persecution of teachers and cases of corruption, among many other issues related to the period between 1973-1985. .
“There are millions of documents. Seeing them is a very big job and checking if they are authentic is quite a difficult task,” said the president of the INDDHH.
And he acknowledged that the agency is seeing what it can do with all that material.
Asked about the provision of the institution’s resources to review all the files, Israel acknowledged that first a “task” will be carried out with its own researchers and then it will be seen if other external ones want to join the review work.
When asked if the institution will request more resources from the State for this issue, the president of the INDDHH acknowledged that it is “a possibility” that is being analyzed.
For this topic the Ministry of National Defense filed a criminal complaint to try to determine who released these files and why.
