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 Editorials | Issues | April 2007 
Human Rights Watch Blasts Impunity of 'Dirty War'
 El Universal
Human Rights Watch on Thursday denounced the impunity that prevails for those behind human rights violations during the "Dirty War" against leftists in Mexico and the lack of results on the part of the special prosecutor´s office charged with investigating the repression of the 1960s and ´70s.
HRW said the results obtained by the special prosecutor´s office, created by the 2000-2006 government of President Vicente Fox, were "deeply disappointing."
Proof of that, the organization said in a communiqué, is that impunity continues for the people behind the more than 600 disappearances under investigation and the student massacres of Oct. 2, 1968 and June 10, 1971.
"The special prosecutor´s office may be gone, but the need to address the legacy of past abuses remains," said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for HRW. "Mexico must still find a way to meet its obligation to investigate and prosecute these cases."
He pointed out that other Latin American countries - like Argentina, Chile and Uruguay - have made significant advances in bringing to trial those accused of committing atrocious violations during those countries´ military regimes.
Yet, according to Vivanco, "Mexico remains unwilling to do so."
The denunciation by HRW came just prior to next week´s visit to Mexico by a mission of the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The objective of that mission will be to make contact with the new federal authorities of the government of President Felipe Calderón and speak with independent human rights and civil groups to improve the understanding of the situation of basic rights in the country. |
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