Eliot Engel, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, said this morning that the victims of the El Mozote massacre deserve much more from his government.
These statements, given by the leader of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the lower house of the US Congress, are given a day after Nayib Bukele’s arrival in El Mozote and in front of the victims he downplayed the abuses of the armed conflict and the importance of the peace agreements. war and the politicization of the country’s security forces.
Engel’s words were added to a message from fellow Congressman Jim McGovern, who condemned Bukele’s attack on David Morales, a human rights defender and victim of the worst massacre in the armed conflict, which claimed the lives of 1,000 people in December 1981.
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“If Nayib Bukele really wants to show that he is with the victims and with justice, he should give Judge Guzmán access to military cases, as required by a court decision. It would be a significant act, “McGovern added.
At the time, Bukele offered to open the military archives of the “A to Z” armed conflict. However, the reality was diametrically different.
The president, who “promised to turn the page on the armed conflict,” agreed that the Ministry of Defense would block the inspection of military archives.
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This inspection by Judge Jorge Guzmán of San Francisco Gotera, protected by a court order, has been thwarted by the military on numerous occasions this year, and President Bukele has approved and justified this act of contempt and disobedience.
Both Engel and McGovern join several local voices, mostly human rights defenders, who are calling on President Bukele to minimize casualties, the right to the truth and to use the situation in El Mozote to proselytize and promote you are vying against your political rivals.
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