A few days ago, the Board of Directors of the INDDHH accepted the Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay in its registry of social organizations. The only re-elected director of the INDDHH, Wilder Tayler, (who voted against the acceptance of the organization) said that “the co-optation of entities that tolerate the denial of human rights should not be allowed”, and stressed that “there are limits that should not be passed”.
On September 19, the organization of former political prisoners of Uruguay – Crysol, considered inadmissible that the INDDHH had accepted, by a majority, to include in its registry of social organizations the Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay, which defends repressors during the past civic-military dictatorship (1973-1985), and vindicates those who were victims of the guerrillas.
In the same sense, this Wednesday, September 21, Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Detainees issued a statement through which they expressed their utmost rejection and concern for the INDDHH’s decision to register the Center for Human Rights Studies of the Uruguay (CEDDHHU), which denies State terrorism.
“This is an organization that promotes a negationist vision of state terrorism, endorsing the pact of silence and violates the memory of the events that occurred in the recent past, by also classifying those who committed crimes against humanity as political prisoners,” he said. the association in a statement.
Likewise, Mothers and Relatives pointed out that the Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay is made up of people with “questionable experience, does not meet the minimum conditions to be accepted as a member of the INDDHH and, on the contrary, goes against the regulations that gave rise to the Institution and the principles that emanate from it, which must protect, promote and defend human rights”.
“With this inscription, what different social organizations have been warning about is made flesh: the intentions to discredit the Institution continue, now trying to make it take a turn in its work orientation by giving rise to a false revisionism of the recent past” , expressed Mothers and Relatives of the Disappeared.
197 detainees disappeared
He added: “The INDDHH cannot allow itself to have organizations that deny our 197 detained and disappeared relatives and that openly defend the violators of human rights, civil and military, who acted under the protection of the State.”
“We continue to defend the Institution and its original mission as an achievement of the organized people: the INDDHH cannot be neutral in this matter or base itself on a supposed plurality to admit organizations that violate human rights in their discourse. For truth, memory and justice. Never again State terrorism”, sentenced the Association of Mothers and Relatives of Detained-Disappeared.
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The Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay is chaired by Sergio Hugo Molaguero Brescia, and the vice-presidency is held by Graciela Rompani (widow of Jorge Pacheco Areco, of the Colorado Party, president of the Republic between December 6, 1967 and December 1). March 1972).
Molaguero, son of the owner of the former “Seral” shoe factory, was kidnapped by the leftist group OPR33 in 1972.
He is a former businessman in the footwear industry and former leader of the Colorado Party, he was proposed to join the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Institution by the deputy of the Colorado Party Omar Estévez who in May 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, He was denounced by the bench of deputies of the Broad Front for “alleged criminal acts related to the health of workers in his company and damage to public health.” After a series of inspections carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) in the citrus company owned by Estévez, the Secretary of State finally decided to file the case.
To integrate the INDDHH, he had the support of the Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay, the Center for Retired Officers of the Armed Forces, the Uruguayan Institute of Culture and the Fundación Rioplatense de Estudios.
