Human rights defenders regret that the president gave a negative speech in front of victims in Mozote.
the human rights defender Arnau Baulenas, IDHUCA lawyer expresses that President Nayib Bukele shows “deep ignorance” about the Peace Accords, saying in last Thursday’s speech that they are a “farce”.
“The war was a farce, like the Peace Accords … Yes, it stained them because they were a farce, a farce, a negotiation between two domes. Or what benefit did the Peace Accords bring to the Salvadorans?” dir Bukele en Mozote.
Arnau Baulenas, maintains that the statements of President Bukele show a “deep ignorance” as any cessation of a war, whether international or an internal conflict, such as that experienced in El Salvador, is a positive thing, “and in no case can it be described as a farce, “says Baulenas.
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Celia Medrano, a human rights defender, believes that the Peace Accords managed to close an armed confrontation, which went so far as to allow spaces for both parties to have a civilian life.
“Trying to minimize the value of this political agreement that allowed us to get out of a civil war is evidence of ignorance of history, and what’s worse, not learning from history and being making the same mistakes they can dangerously leading us back to an armed confrontation, ”Medrano opines.
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He points out that the closure of political spaces, electoral fraud, militarization and the prominence of military forces were aspects that generated the war and the current government is committing the same actions.