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Politics, Rights for Youth and Women
Demanding an End to Impunity on the 30th Anniversary of the Mozote Massacre
Salvadoran and international organizations held a press conference on Monday December 12th to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Mozote Massacre and denounce the impunity and silence surrounding this case and other cases of human rights abuses and violence committed during El Salvador’s 12 year civil war. The organizations that signed on to the statement included Salvadoran social justice organizations like The Salvadoran Ecologic (UNES), The Association for Training and Investiation for Mental Health (ACISAM) and the Monsenor Romero Concentration. Solidarity organizations like Sister Cities and the SHARE foundation and also participated in the press conference and signed on to the statement.
The Monsenor Romero Concentration Demands Justice on the 30th Anniversary of the Mozote Massacre
The Monsenor Romero Concentration calls on the national and international community to remember that on the 11, 12 and 13th of December of this year it will be 30 years since the Mozote Massacre, and to continue efforts to denounce impunity and demand that the Salvadoran government provide truth, justice and reparations for the crime against humanity. For this reason we declare:
1. Never to forget this cruel, inhumane and aberrant extermination.
2. We stand in solidarity with the families of the victims and with the survivors
3. We remember that those responsible for the massacres are members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.
4. We denounce the impunity of this and other massacres and crimes against humanity, especially the murder of Monsenor Romero and its manifestations in our current time.
5. We demand that the Salvadoran government follow the recommendations of Report 177/10 of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights about the case emitted on November 3, 2010.
6. We urge the Salvadoran government to overcome past government’s noncompliance with this report to provide truth, justice and reparations to the Salvadoran people for this grave violation of human rights.
7. We demand that the Salvadoran government:
-Comply with its constituional obligations and international law in relation to human rights
– Name a civilian as the Minister of Security and Justice
– Cooperate with the Spanish legal system in its investigation, judgement and sanctioning of the material and intellectual criminals behind the massacres of the Jesuits.
Read the Diario Co-Latino article (in spanish) here.
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