He Senate approved and converted into law the project by which the right to reparation is recognized for the guerrilla victims, in the middle of a session with several crosses and in which the Broad Front (FA) voted against the initiative.
The initiative, which had already been validated in Deputies, proposes compensation with up to 150 thousand dollars, in addition to moral and social recognition for those who have suffered illegal acts committed by members of armed groups, for political or ideological reasons, between January 1, 1962 and December 31, 1976.
The project, presented by Town meeting and later modified by Colorado Party, was defended by the lobbying senator Guillermo Domenech. “It seeks to pay for the reconciliation of the patriots participating in these confrontations, trying to close a wound that has divided various generations of our country,” said the legislator.
Referring to the position against the FA, Domenech He expressed his “hope that the approval of the project, even if it does not obtain the unanimity of the political system, constitutes a milestone of human reconciliation and restoration of historical truth.”
“It is not intended to advocate the theory of the two demons nor is it intended to equate the victims of armed groups with the victims of illegal actions of the State that have caused people to be injured or killed,” warned the lobbyist about what happened in the dictatorship.
For the Broad Front, “it is based on an ideological and political position”
From the FA, the senator Charles Carrera He considered that the initiative “is based on an ideological and political position”, so not everyone agrees. alluding to Domenech, He noted: “It says that it is not intended to advocate the theory of the two demons, but the theory of the two demons is advocated. There are still many victims of State terrorism who have not received reparation, we still have 192 missing”.
For Career “no one in Uruguay it has the patrimony of pain and in principle we are not against reparation projects”. However, he asked “to hold a debate in which we have to cover all these situations of victims of State terrorism that have not been repaired as a whole.”
Manini Ríos spoke of “meanness” and “denialism”
As the tone of the discussion rose, the lobbying senator took the floor Guido Manini Rios, who said he saw “a kind of pettiness with those who were victims, but they were not victims of ours, they were victims of others, so they do not deserve reparation”, in a critical tone with the Broad front.
And he added: “There is a kind of denialism: there is no fault of those who took up arms against the rule of law in the early 1960s, therefore the victims do not deserve reparation.”
Source: Ambito
