The Truth Commission on the “War dirty“, period of repression in Mexico between the 60s and 90sentered Army facilities for the first time this Wednesday to initiate the first reconnaissance actions.
More than 60 people, including families of the disappeared and victims, entered Military Camp 1-A in the Mexican capital to investigate spaces where “serious human rights violations” were allegedly committed, the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) reported in a statement.
The Commission for Access to Truth, Historical Clarification and the Promotion of Justice for the serious human rights violations committed from 1965 to 1990, finalized one of the historical demands of victims, relatives of disappeared persons and groups,” he stated. The report.
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The action occurs after the creation of this commission in October 2021 by order of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who last June opened the Army archives on the subject and in August promised to do the same with those of the Marine.
The commission seeks to clarify the events from the end of the 1960s to part of the 1980s, when the Mexican State, then dominated by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), persecuted political dissidents, social leaders, peasants, and students, leaving hundreds of disappeared.
Work started decades ago continues.
In 1977, the activist Rosario Ibarra de Piedra founded the ¡Eureka! Committee, made up of mothers who were looking for their children captured by state forces and which counted at least 564 disappeared due to the “Dirty War”.
The selection of the spaces that are being inspected was based on military documentation and the testimonies of survivors and people who have been part of the public service,” Segob specified this Wednesday.
In the chosen places, documentation will be made with expert methodology.
The relatives of the disappeared and survivors have been accompanied by the Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Segobthe technical team of the Truth Commission, the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims, the Historical Clarification Mechanism, the Public Broadcasting System of the Mexican State, and the Ministry of National Defense.
After this first incursion, the Truth Commission will continue with the inspection process in those points that the survivors and relatives point out as possible clandestine detention sites”, promised the Segob.
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