Democrat Jim McGovern has lamented that President Nayib Bukele attacked human rights defenders. Congressman Eliot Engel joined McGovern to point out to Bukele that the victims deserve more government.
The American congressman, Jim McGovern, Noted that “it is a pity that (President Nayib Bukele) used this nationally televised speech to attack the human rights defender (Apolón Tobar) and (David Morales) the victims’ main lawyer in the case. of the massacre (in Mozote) (1981) “.
The opinion of the Democratic congressman arises from the words of President Nayib Bukele in a speech he gave last Thursday in El Mozote, where in addition to saying that the Peace Accords are a “farce”, he also attacked human rights advocate, Apol·loni Tobar; and Cristosal’s lawyer and representative of the Mozote victims, David Morales, a former human rights lawyer.
“How recently did they have an event that Apolloni came up with? What’s it called? David Morales, the ex-attorney, who profits from the people, lives off the case,” President Nayib Bukele said last Thursday in Mozote, To promise works on this site.
Congressman McGovern further pointed out that the president arrived by helicopter at Mozote, also reminded the Salvadoran president that he has yet to obey a court order to allow access to military files to Judge Jorge Guzmán.
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“If Nayib Bukele really wants to prove that he is with the victims and with justice, he should give access to the military files to Judge Guzmán, as required by a court order. This would be a significant act,” the congressman posted in your Twitter account.
To these words was added the opinion of Eliot Engel, congressman who chairs the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives. UU., Who responded to McGovern’s publication by saying, “I agree, the victims of the Mozote massacre deserve far more from their government,” the U.S. official notes.
The Salvadoran president in his speech repeatedly said that the war and the Peace Accords are a “farce” and only a negotiation between two domes.
“The war was a farce, they killed more than 75,000 people between the two sides, including the 1,000 here from Mozote and it was a farce, like the Peace Accords,‘ it’s messing up the Peace Accords ’, yes, mancilló because they were a farce, a negotiation between two domes, Or what benefits did the Peace Accords bring to the Salvadorans? said President Bukele, in Mozote.
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Former human rights defender David Morales reacted to President Bukele’s statements and posted on his Twitter profile, saying that “Today (last Thursday), #ElMozote received a fake speech and hatred. Loaded with demagogic promises. They were lied to again about the military archives. Blood and suffering are priceless @nayibbukele; on the contrary, they always end up revealing cynicism and complicity, “the lawyer told the network. social.
To the massacre of the Mozote at least 1,000 people assassinated in 1981 died during a counterinsurgency operation realized in December of that year, in the corners of the Mozote, the Jewel and the Toril, in Morazán.
Until last October, there have been four occasions in which the Armed Forces, with the support of President Nayib Bukele, have denied that judicial diligence is carried out in four of its military garrisons, to give access to a judge in the case. to the archives, in which they only seek to gather possible evidence to clarify the massacre committed in 1981 in the armed conflict.
In the four attempts made by the Investigating Judge of San Francisco Gotera, Jorge Guzmán, he has given explanations in order to have access to the files, and the same number of times the Armed Forces has shielded itself from keeping “secret” documents in their premises to block inspections.
While the Constitutional Chamber has ruled that the documents are not confidential, President Bukele has justified the blockade in which the judge in the case has no jurisdiction. He also argued the confidential nature of the documents that are protected in military headquarters, and even said that the intention to enter the institutions is to review strategic security plans.