Human rights defenders regret that the president made a negative speech to victims in El Mozote.
He human rights defender Arnau Baulenas, lawyer for Idhuca expresses President Nayib Bukele’s “deep ignorance” about the peace agreements and said in his speech last Thursday that they are a “farce”.
“The war was a sham, like the peace deals … Yes, I wipe them out because they were a sham, a sham, a negotiation between two leaders. Or what benefit did the peace accords bring to the Salvadorans?” Said Bukele. in El Mozote.
Arnau Baulenas, argues that President Bukele’s statements show a “deep ignorance” as any termination of a war, be it international or internal conflict, as experienced in El Salvador, is a positive thing “and under no circumstances, it can be classified as a sham, ”says Baulenas.
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Celia Medrano, a human rights defender, believes that the peace accords managed to close an armed confrontation that even left room for both sides to lead civilian lives.
“Trying to minimize the value of that political agreement that allowed us to get out of a civil war is proof of ignorance about history, and what’s worse, not learning from history and making the same mistakes that can take us back dangerously. lead to armed confrontation, ”says Medrano.
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It points out that the closure of political spaces, electoral fraud, militarization and the role of armed forces were aspects that triggered the war and that the current government is taking the same actions.