In a statement, the Permanent Council of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference calls for the annulment of the law that regulates crimes against humanity and war crimes, approved on July 4 by the Congress of the Republic, with 15 votes in favor, 12 against and no abstentions.
“The Permanent Council of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference makes an urgent call to our authorities, to the various bodies that protect the rule of law in Peru and to organized civil society to activate the constitutional mechanisms in order to seek ways to obtain the annulment of this law as soon as possible.“, the document states.
The CEP will ensure that victims of all crimes and murders committed in Peru “have access to justice and the corresponding reparation to which they are entitled and which the Peruvian State has an obligation to guarantee.”
They also emphasize that fundamental principles such as human rights, justice and legality must be firmly defended, and they ask that the authors of this measure carry out an “immediate rectification for the good of Peru.”
In this regard, they declare their “deep bewilderment and disappointment” since the promulgation of this law is sacrificing “respect for life and the defense of justice.”
They then warn that the enacted law repeats a legal text that “contained the First Final Complementary Provision of Legislative Decree 1097 of 2010, which was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in its 2011 ruling.”
