The Crysol association considers that the initiative to make them freely accessible degrades democracy.
The association that brings together political prisoners during the last military dictatorship in the Uruguay, Crysol, raised his claim to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) so that the project of free access to the dictatorship’s archives intervenes and does not prosper since they consider it degrades the democracy.
The president of the organization, Margarette May Macaulay, presented a letter to the IACHR requesting an end to “improper practices that degrade democracy.” On the other hand, he questions the position of the ruling coalition regarding not receiving the opinions of the organizations involved.
Other organizations, like Crysol, questioned the fact that the project proposes free access to the archives of the dictatorship, especially what refers to the identities of the victims, added to the fact that their opinions were not included in the discussions in the Senate. However, since Executive power They assured that the identities were going to be kept safe.
On the other hand, they claim that they were also unable to express their opinion regarding the approved law of economic compensation to victims of sedition where they assure that they double or triple those that were granted to victims of sedition. State terrorism.
What does the project consist of?
In mid-May, the Minister of Defense, Javier García, 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 to Parliament the legislative initiative so that “documents relating to the recent past and human rights violations” are freely accessible to 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). “The aim is to facilitate access to archives held by the State in a broad and unrestricted manner, such as the case of 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 detainee records, raid reports and arrest warrants, from 1968 to 2000. The papers were found in 2006 in a military unit, where a detention and torture center of the dictatorship operated.
Source: Ambito
