The initiative is “a clear attempt to benefit inmates imprisoned for crimes committed during the civic-military dictatorship,” according to a document approved by the National Political Bureau of the Broad Front.
The coalition thus called to “participate and accompany” a mobilization called for next Thursday in Montevideo by the group Mothers and Relatives of Detained Disappeared and two other organizations.
Also participating in the protest will be the Federation of University Students of Uruguay (FEUU) and the Inter-Union Plenary of Workers-National Workers Convention (PIT-CNT), one of the first to repudiate the bill.
The Uruguayan trade union center had already advanced that it will “oppose” those who committed crimes against humanity “not paying for their crimes with effective imprisonment.”
“We will defend democracy and a rule of law for those who were part of the dictatorship and exercised state terrorism,” the PIT-CNT said in a statement.
According to the call, the organizations will mobilize towards the Legislative Palace.
The bill was presented in Parliament by the Uruguayan senator Guido Manini Rios, leader of the Cabildo Abierto, a force that is part of the Lacalle Pou government coalition.
The initiative that proposes that prisoners over 65 leave jail and serve home detention generated a controversy that has been going on for weeks because there are sectors that warned that it would benefit ex-military men convicted of crimes during the civic-military dictatorship, who are now in prison.
Last month, Five UN rapporteurs on human rights expressed in a letter that they sent to Lacalle Pou their “deep concern” for the chance that the initiative will advance in Congress.
For his part, former President of Uruguay and Colorado leader Julio María Sanguinetti said that the initiative was inopportune.
On Saturday, the fans of the Nacional soccer club, one of the most popular in Uruguay, unfolded a banner that read “No to the liberation of the torturers” during the game they played against River Plate of Montevideo.
Source From: Ambito
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