The president of the Broad Front questioned that these data are of a sensitive nature and the Defense Minister answered him.
Last Thursday the project was announced by the government that proposes to make public the archives of the dictatorship, to which the president of the broad front, Fernando Pereiraopined that it was important to take care of the victims of State terrorism, this provoked the response of the Minister of National Defense, javier garciawho established that they seek transparency and truth.
In statements to Telemundo, the president of the Frente Amplio gave his opinion on the bill for the creation of a section in the General Archive of the Nation where you can find documents that show the violations of human rights carried out during the civic-military dictatorship.
Pereira established that one must be very careful with these files since they contain “personal information of those who were victims of State terrorism” and that you have to take care of them and not expose them. In this sense, he established that they will surely talk with an expert on the subject since he considers that the privacy of the next of kin is being violated.
This provoked questioning by the Minister of National Defense, Javier García. “I ask: Who says what information you can access? What is the censor who is going to say that? Us We are for transparency, for the truth. We do not want there to be a censorship committee that tells Uruguayans what they have to read and what not from the recent past,” García stated at a press conference in the city of Ecilda Paullier.
What does the project consist of?
Last Thursday, the Defense Minister confirmed that the Lacalle Pou government sent a bill to Parliament so that the documents relating to human rights violations committed during the dictatorship are freely accessible.
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 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
