Bukele read for the first time as president of the El Mozote case on December 17, 2020, giving a speech on confrontation and attacks on human rights defenders, among them Morals. This is what you said in an interview with EFE.
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has taken a very traditional governmental position, similar to the previous Governors, to obstruct criminal investigations of comedic humanitarian crimes in civil war (1980-1992), to favor and incur those responsible for these hechos, dijo a Efe el procurator David Morales.
Morales, who directed the Prosecution Service for the Defense of the Human Rights (PDDH) (2013-2016), considered that Bukele “is potentially the military power”, which means a retreat in the matter of human rights.
The procurator lamented that, for example, in the criminal case of the massacre of El Mozote (1981), perpetrated by the Ejército, the mandatario, also commander of the Fuerza Armada, obstructive judicial proceedings with the entry of archives related to dicha matanza.
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Encourage and protect war criminals
For Morals, the result is that after the armed conflict all the commanders (commanders) of the Fortress of El Salvador have held a clear political position to cover the grave violations of human rights that members and officers would plan, supervise toleraron and encubrieron ”.
As a matter of fact, the Executive of Bukele held the opportunity to offer a generational relevance and to “change this situation”, but, in its place, it has always been in a position to favor war criminals.
This Gobierno has the opportunity to be the first Gobierno to offer a generational relevance, because both the President and the Minister of Defense (Rene Merino Monroy) are not direct actors in the war. However, he has taken this position, he has no legal justification for it, on the contrary he violates the international and national law ”, he said.
The procurator points out that “the institutional reality in El Salvador is that of a civilian power that has no end to be over the military power. It is said that a military force that has a lot to do with it and that at the moment is potentially President Bukele ”.
Lamentó que la Assamblea Legislativa y la Fiscalía, a la que catalog as a passive entity in the investigation of war crimes, también se sumen a la impunidad y nieguen a las viktimas justicia, reparation en verdad.
“There has been an act of tolerance towards the war criminals of the Fiscalia, in institutional terms, although a small team has tried to make an effort without the mayor responding inside the Fiscalia (…) this is the state of greater American impunity ) ”, Sostuvo.
An electoral political event in El Mozote
Bukele was first elected president of the El Mozote case on December 17, 2020 and his agenda does not include a visit to the monument to the victims, placed in the zone of massacre, for a speech of confrontation and attacks on defenders of rights humanos, entre estos Morales.
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This day, Bukele accused the opposition Front Farabundo Martí for the National Liberation (FMLN), the prosecutor of Human Rights, José Apolonio Tobar, and Morales for using the massacre for economic and political redress.
‘Fue a Presidcial activity, creo yo, regrettable. There is no characteristic of an act of repairer for the victims, on the contrary, it is an act that constitutes an aggravation, an act that is revoked for various reasons, ”said the developer.
He also advocated that the massacre affected many communities (at least five), in addition to the population, victims and families not only being gathered in the zone, but also in other parts of the country, so that the act would not be representative of all the victims of the case “, underlined.
Bukele, during his visit to El Mozote’s barracks, gives a confrontational speech and offers to ‘farce’ Paz’s Accords.
Morals lamented that Bukele was dedicated to carrying out personal attacks against human rights defenders, against the institutionalism of the PDDH, “believing that this was a tendency, a narrative that was characterized by aggression by periodicists and some defenders who denounced developed abuses of power on his part or on the part of the Governor ”, signaled.
Arrêter contra los Aguerdos de Paz
This day, Bukele also signaled that the Peace Accords, which would end up in the hands of war, were a “farce” just as the internal conflict escalated.
“It is also lamentable that he has died, as a governing body of the decade of the 90s and 2000s, in the negation of history, in this occasion expressing that the war and the Accords of Paz are a farce, this also is a discourse false that it is important to dismiss in its content “, expressed Morales.
The signalman said that “the Peace Accords will have a historic rumble, a deep change, at least, in the institutionality of the State and will destroy a war of two years, all change from this moment and only we will have a lesser-known society which is about any president ”.
“The Peace of Peace has a historic dimension to any individual functionary and it is impossible for a president to be alone, inclusive, without the Peace of Peace,” he said.
Indicates that “what President Bukele really lacks in his discourse is the history of the communities that he has received, these communities that sufieron in carne prophesy massacres, forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, bombings of warriors, suicide bombers frontier de Honduras ”.
Para Morales “now it is very clear that it is a very traditional governmental position, similar to the previous governors to obstruct investigations, now reverting to aggravating the victims, distorting the dialogue with the community to repair it of the victims ”.