Eliot Engel, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, said this morning that the victims of the El Mozote massacre deserve much more from his administration.
These statements, given by the leader of the US Congressional Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee, are made a day after Nayib Bukele’s arrival in El Mozote, and to the victims he downplayed the abuse of the armed conflict and its importance. of the peace accords, which ended the war and the politicization of the country’s security forces.
Engel’s words were added to fellow Congressman Jim McGovern’s message, who condemned Bukele’s attack on human rights defender David Morales and the victims of the worst massacre of the armed conflict, which died in December 1981. demanded of nearly 1,000 people.
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“If Nayib Bukele really wants to show that he is with the victims and justice, he must give Judge Guzmán access to the military files as required by a court order. That would be an important act, ”added McGovern.
At the time, Bukele offered to open the military archives of the armed conflict “from A to Z”. However, the reality was diametrically different.
The president who “promised to turn the page of the armed conflict” has agreed to have the Department of Defense block an inspection of military records.
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This inspection by San Francisco Judge Gotera Jorge Guzmán, covered by a court order, was repeatedly prevented by the military this year, and President Bukele endorsed and justified this act of contempt and disobedience.
Both Engel and McGovern join multiple local voices, mostly human rights defenders, calling on President Bukele for downplaying the victims, the right to the truth, and for using the situation in El Mozote to convert and promote carry on go against your political rivals.
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