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Uruguay: President-Elect Creates Truth Commission

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Uruguayan president-elect Tabaré Vázquez (photo: Wikipedia)

Uruguayan president-elect Tabaré Vázquez (photo: Wikipedia)

Uruguay’s president-elect Tabaré Vázquez has launched a Truth and Justice Commission to look into crimes committed during the country’s 1973-85 dictatorship.

The Commission’s objective is to advance the search for the estimated 200 people who were disappeared during the junta, and will be made up of families of the victims and religious leaders.

The entity will formally come into being on 1st March, when Vázquez takes over from current president José Mujica. The group will work to analyse existing archives, follow up on cases that have been brought locally and internationally, and take witness statements from victims of human rights abuses and their families.

“The missing information is somewhere, and we have to find it, and I have high hopes that we can substantially advance,” said Vázquez at the press conference earlier today.

“We have moved forward but we want to advance further; we are going to work to overcome any hurdles that exist or that we may encounter, so that they disappear.”

It was not until Vázquez’s first term began, in 2005, that investigations into the country’s dictatorship began, with excavations at military barracks and other sites, where the remains of some of those killed were found. However, the vast majority of the victims have yet to be found.

Since then, 15 people have been convicted for crimes committed during the period, including former dictators Gregorio Álvarez and Juan María Bordaberry. All were imprisoned on murder charges. The majority of those disappeared were kidnapped in Argentina, under Plan Condor in which the de-facto governments of the region collaborated, through shared intelligence and assassinations of opponents.

 

 

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