They demand that the FGR reactivate investigations into crimes of the dirty war

Jared Laureles and Jessica Xantomila

The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 18, 2024, p. 4

Survivors and relatives of victims of the dirty war They proposed that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) resume the final report presented by the Historical Clarification Mechanism of the Truth Commission to reactivate investigations against those who committed serious human rights violations during that period.

In an interview, they pointed out that the Prosecutor’s Office already has a systematic analysiswhich will allow you to bring cases before judges, both those that were reported at the time and those of the 591 perpetrators that appear in the report It was the State (1965-1990)which consists of six volumes and documents at least 8,594 victims.

Tita Radilla, who began the search for her father, Rosendo, on August 25, 1974 – detained and disappeared that day by the military at a checkpoint in Atoyac, Guerrero – said that the report presented on Friday by commissioners Abel Barrera, David Fernández Dávalos and Carlos Pérez Ricart revealed relevant information, despite of the obstacles, of the protection that continues to be provided by the government towards the Army.

He emphasized that it is time for the President to order the military institution again to hand over the files in its possession, so that the families of missing persons and investigators have access to the documents so that investigations can be carried out. real and effective.

It is time to end this uncertainty, for families to know the truth and for society to be able to learn about these terrible events.he reiterated.

The president of the Association of Relatives of Detained Disappeared Persons and Victims of Human Rights Violations also insisted that the report, together with the other part of the investigation carried out by Commissioner Eugenia Allier, will be a great contribution to continue investigations into crimes such as forced disappearance, torture, extrajudicial execution, massacres and other forms of violence.

For her part, Alicia de los Ríos, the namesake daughter of the 23rd of September Communist League (Liga 23) guerrilla who disappeared in January 1978 by the White Brigade, agreed that the FGR should reactivate the investigations.

He noted that while it is important for the Mexican State to assume its public responsibility for the violations committed in the dirty warit is also key that the Army Open your files and let retired military personnel speak.

Martha Alicia Camacho Loaiza, former member of the League 23, claimed that for five decades there has been a lack of political will to clarify the crimes, in addition to the fact that The Army continues with this secrecy to prevent access to your files. It’s been 50 years, it’s fair that we have justice.