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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2005 
Official Proposes Damage Payments
 El Universal
| | Ignatius Carrillo Prieto listens to the testimonies of how six men in the town of Sierra Guerrerense were killed by soldiers in March, 1973. As the special prosecutor for past crimes, he suggests giving about US31,600 to each relative of a disappeared person.(Photo: Francisco Olvera) |
The nation's special prosecutor for past crimes proposed compensation payments of about 200 million pesos (US18 million) for an estimated 500 surviving relatives and victims of the country's so-called "dirty war." Prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo also told reporters that he sensed a lack of interest on the part of some people in the nation's judiciary and Attorney General's Office in prosecuting the political crimes of the 1960s and 1970s.
"It isn't a question of exchanging money for justice ... rather, it's a question of the government assuming responsibility" for the deaths and disappearances, Carrillo said of the compensations.
He suggested giving about 350,000 pesos (US31,600) to each relative of a disappeared person, and about 150,000 pesos (US13,600) for those who were detained for political reasons.
Carrillo urged the federal government to budget funds for the compensation payments in 2006.
He also said he would soon file charges against former government officials for the 1968 murder of student demonstrators in what has come to be known as the massacre of Tlatelolco.
Carrillo was appointed by President Vicente Fox to bring to justice government, police and military officials who wrongfully imprisoned, tortured, and killed government opponents, as well as those who planned and participated in massacres of student demonstrators in 1968 and 1972.
He did not identify those who he claimed lacked interest in prosecuting the crimes. At least one judge has dismissed charges Carrillo brought against a former president in the case of a student massacre. |
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