The Executive sent to Parliament a project to convert those referring to human rights violations into freely accessible documents.
The government of Luis Lacalle Pou sent to Parliament a bill so that documents relating to human rights violations committed during the dictatorship are freely accessible.
Defense Minister, javier garciaconfirmed it on Thursday, when he was approached on the subject during a ceremony for the Day of National Army. “All these files are already there, but very few people know about them. It would be nice if anyone could access without limitations,” he said, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.
The Ministries of National Defense and Education and culture they presented before the Parliament the legislative initiative so that the “documents relative to the recent past and to the violations of the human rights” are of free access for any interested party.
The project consists of four articles and creates a section in the General Archive of the Nationwhich depends on the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC).
“It seeks to facilitate access to the files that are in the possession of the State in a broad and unrestricted manner, such as the so-called Berrutti Archives,” says the argument that accompanies the proposal.
The Berrutti Archive is made up of some 1,500 rolls of microfilm, each with thousands of pages and different documents, including arrest records, search reports and arrest warrants, from 1968 to 2000.
The papers were found in 2006 in a military unit, where a dictatorship detention and torture center operated.
Source: Ambito
