The delegation of the Mothers of April Association (Ama), which participated in the governance table of the civil society forum at the Summit of the Americas, held in Los Angeles, California, denounced the crimes against humanity committed by the regime of Daniel Ortega in the social protests of 2018.
“Our cry, our call is that we do not allow the crimes against humanity committed by the Ortega-Murillo regime to go unpunished,” Ama denounces through the statement dated Friday, June 9.
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The mothers of the victims of government repression called on the Nicaraguan people to continue denouncing the crimes committed “against our children and relatives, most of them young, students, artisans, producers, those who were executed by police forces, paramilitaries, snipers, doing use of weapons of war (for the exclusive use of the Army) with the active participation of shock groups of the FSLN party (…) under the order to shoot to kill».
They emphasized that the crimes committed by the Nicaraguan dictatorship were carried out with total impunity, “with treachery and cruelty.” “Not only did they shoot to kill, but they also raged at the dying bodies of our children and relatives, dragging them and dancing on them.”
Regarding the complicity of State institutions, Ama pointed out that they were denied care in hospitals when young people were mortally wounded in social protests and went to hospitals.
“They refused to receive the complaints, they washed and erased evidence, they blackmailed us to deliver the bodies and the death certificates, many of them falsified. They besieged us at their funerals, they have desecrated our graves, they have criminalized paying homage to our dead and imprisoned relatives of murdered victims,” they stressed.
Ortega and his wall of impunity
Another of the situations denounced by the Mothers of April was that the Ortega regime has erected “a wall of impunity so as not to account for the more than 355 assassinated by means of the absolute concentration of all the Executive, Judicial, Legislative, police and the Army.
“It has legalized impunity after the approval in the National Assembly of a package of laws, among them the “Self Amnesty” Law (Law 996), and the Comprehensive Victim Assistance Law (Law 994). It has set up a Justice System that operates as a human rights violation machine, which has not only denied us, but also expropriated the right we have as victims to the truth, to justice, to file complaints with the Prosecutor’s Office, to demand an investigation of the facts, and bring those responsible to justice,” they added.
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The mothers of the victims add that the regime continues to persecute and police the families, who have been denied the right to work and public education. “Academic records have been erased in universities and students linked to the protest that has ended in the civil death of many people have been expelled.”
Ama made the call to join efforts with civil society “so that the cry for justice of the victims of state repression reaches all corners of the Americas.” “Let’s generate joint actions that demolish the wall of impunity, so that impunity is not imposed, it is silenced, it is disguised, it is not frozen, it is not silenced.”
