Peru enacts amnesty for military and police accused of human rights abuses | Peru
Human Rights groups and the families of the victims of Peru’s two -year internal armed conflict expressed anger after giving a blanket forgiveness for all military and police officers accused of human rights crimes of the country’s government from 1980 to 2000.
Peru President Dina Boluarte signed the law on Wednesday, which was approved by the country’s congress last month, to the applause of the best military rice and ministers in Lima’s Government Palace.
The legislation prevents the criminal prosecution and conviction of former soldiers, police officers and self -defense committee fighters accused of serious violations of human rights in the fight against leftist rebels inspired by Mao and other groups.
Gisela Ortiz, the sister of one of the victims of the 1992 death staff massacre, He said in x: “A government that violates human rights is issued an amnesty law for those who support it: the police and military personnel who killed, disappeared and raped between 1980 and 2000.”
Juanita Goebertus, American Director Human Rights Monitoring OrganizationHe described the law as a betrayal of Peru victims. “This weakens the efforts of providing accountability for the atrocities and weakening the country’s legal rule further,” he said.
The brutal and long -term conflict was marked with savagery committed by both sides. Between 1980 and 2000, approximately 70,000 people died and 20,000 disappeared, according to Peru’s findings of Truth and Reconciliation Commission; The shining road fighters were responsible for about 54% of the deaths and for the rest of the army.
Boluarte said: “With the entry into force of this amnesty law, the Peru Government and the Congress accept the sacrifices of the members of the armed forces, the police and self -defense groups in the fight against terrorism.”
“We give them back the dignity that should never be questioned.”
It has been a widespread concern about returning to human rights under the Boluarte government. In 2023, former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison for a 25 -year period for human rights crimes, despite his request for delaying his release from the Regional American Court of American Rights. Last year, the Peru Congress approved a bill that constitutes a limitation charter for war crimes against humanity and crimes against humanity before 2003.
. UN Human Rights Commission In July, he said an alarm about the amnesty draft, Peru said that Per is a task of investigating, prosecution and punishing serious human rights violations ”and“ international standards banned amnesties or amnesties for such serious crimes ”.
According to the National Human Rights Coordinator of Peru Human Rights Organizations Coalition, Peruvian courts guaranteed more than 150 courts and 600 investigations are continuing.
“This amnesty law is a law that blesses unpunished law, Jo “Peru is now a Pariah state in terms of international law. Peru puts Peru the same level as Venezuela and Nicaragua because they clearly ignore the decisions of the American Court and the decisions of international law.”
In particular, Peru’s disappointment in what Peru calls “sarcastic movement için for many years of serious efforts to bring the perpetrators of human rights violations to justice”.
