NOT TO IMPUNITY
http://www.mujeresporjusticia.org/obediencia_debida/obediencia.htm
LETTER TO PRESIDENT EVO MORALES AYMA
"due obedience and FINAL PRESIDENTIAL ORDER?
La Paz, Bolivia, December 20 , 2010
Mr Evo Morales
Constitutional President of Bolivia State
Brother President:
About his uncompromising defense of the Armed Forces (AF) and his insistence that the crimes against humanity committed by the military during the dictatorship were just a product of the "due obedience", I am writing to you with all the respect I have for his inauguration, but also with the respect I have for my conscience. A clean conscience, with a life of struggle for justice and a better world and practical utopia led me first to the dungeons of dictator Hugo Banzer and then into exile in the coup de García Mesa.
Under this awareness, not only President, I gave my vote in hopes of better times, but returned to Bolivia to give my best in this process so dear to the life and struggle of our people and so characteristic of him.
As you have said many times, everything changed, our country owes it to the life and blood of its martyrs and those who fought and fight to stop the darkness, predation and moral social and criminal policy that struck our country for decades until centuries. Criminal policy now appears that only belonged to the neoliberal governments of the past 30 years and which ravaged Bolivia on long-standing and from the republic, had its worst moments in the two decades of military regimes installed power by coups.
From my political ethics, do not share the political pragmatism, pragmatism alone ahistorical, but could understand that from that perspective you want to have pleased the military in the search for ways to prevent these repeat their experience and history coups and in that line of rewarding them want to be happy for not giving a blow when, in 2008, the most recalcitrant country's fascist right where he wanted him out of legitimately put the popular vote.
I can understand your intention, but let me ask you why you should reward an institution for the sole reason of fulfilling its most basic and sacred duty, just respect the Constitution? Is it not a prize just because he knows that this institution can and has the potential armed and historical experience to re-make the country a prisoner of spurious interests when they consider their own interests? If not, why give a prize to meet of duty? Does history only deletes the word of a leader, more legitimate it is?, Is controlled by criminals with flattery or the controls do justice to their crimes, healing the past and future by teaching the new social ethics?
The guardians of democracy are neither weapons nor can those who possess them. Unable to play, once again, a political role to arms forcing their membership of political doctrines and less in the name of democracy and change. The true guardian of democracy is a conscious people, who built their society in a permanent and free debate of opinions, who knows and critically analyze their history and his past, he has learned not to be confused with memory recall and healed their wounds with acts of justice and redress (justice and reparation, the two principles of community justice.) The democratic moments in our history was made against the armed forces, despite their massacres and repression and built the people fighting with their blood and sacrifice.
In addition, President, awarded an Order of Merit democratic named Marcelo Quiroga, a Socialist leader who disappeared FA themselves, not only that the Argentine government and its military rewarded with an Order of Merit that democratic called "30 thousand missing" or that Chile will award its armed forces, and now they are being reasonable, "an order" Salvador Allende "is also an insult, a mockery of the dark Marcelo who gave his life fighting against power of weapons and establish the power of intelligence, consciousness, freedom, solidarity and love. I assure you that neither the current right-wing government of Chile, son and heir democracy Pinochet government would dare to do that until they have learned to maintain a little modesty.
You say, Mr. President, that coups were not the FA act as an institution but only some individual military. That means that those hundreds and hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes payroll paid by the army, who kidnapped, killed, tortured, got rid of many brothers and sisters, ravaged our streets, our homes raided, drug trafficking, criminal named general fees Nazis, exchanged intelligence and uniformed personnel with neighboring dictatorships, they did state terrorism, "just following orders."
Why would a leader like you who claim justice and change the words repeated the arguments of the neo-liberals and right-wing Argentine Raúl Alfonsin and Carlos Menem to avoid not only the trials against the perpetrators but also the view of history against the FA? Given this argument let me recall the words of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo when they said, "Argue due obedience is to use the same arguments that the murderers of Auschwitz in the process of Frankfurt, who based his defense on that one point:" following orders " . Can there be a revolution that forgets history and repeated?
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insists and reiterates that there can be declassified military records because there is no documentary evidence that they were destroyed by Mesa García order and Arce, that you already found out and he was sure of that. That is, it already happened, and there is nothing and Punto Final.
You are the commander in chief of the FA, and has full authority to request information and receive responses no doubt that choosing subordinates and have no doubt that the response received is what you claim. But the victims and relatives of the disappeared have been investigating for 30 to 40 years and also have information, plus lots of practical painful evasions and false answers. Experience you not only listen but did not want to repeat arguments that fascism when disqualified Mothers of Plaza de Mayo with the words "May the crazy, now dismisses the struggle for justice and against the neglect in our country, accusing it of political interests against him.
If you are looking for are the statements under torture or the direct orders of imprisonment, disappearance or murder, you may no longer exist. But that's not what you need to have information declassified to help end the first and continuing offense in the disappearance and then to do justice. As commander in chief you should know that military service is handled through the ranks, worksheets for each member, the daily reports that are given, payments received, that promotions and movements of officers and NCOs are based on the curriculum of each military missions and orders fulfilled. You should know that the FA keep accounts and file administrative orders and work orders, there are the keys, there are documents that do exist and rankings that have been classified illegally and in fact, since by law, must you know-all state documentation becomes public after 20 years. There are supporting documents which spun responsibilities. These can not be gone because of them depends on the professional life of every soldier, grade, salary. The documentation is there and it is even if you do not want to see or be seen.
Due Obedience and Punto Final, with which you pardon in fact those who committed the worst crimes, crimes against humanity, exempting them from any liability, not only legal but historical and allowed to run free in the streets as Froilan Felipe Molina does Bustamante, "the killer" direct controller in the murder of Marcelo Quiroga and Carlos Flores. With their arguments are you pardoning dozens of murderers, rebels, soldiers and paramilitaries, who live happily while relatives are living the torture of walking the halls of justice.
president you support is unprecedented in our history, as an individual do you have the same right as everyone to have his own opinion, but you're president of the Multinational State, can not judge you, pardon and exempt from criminal liability and judicial those who committed crimes as serious. Nothing and no one gives that authority.
Impunity, obedience, the end point and pardons are explicit or implicit waiver of justice and social healing. Its consequences affect society as a whole. Is the institutionalization of injustice by those who are called to do justice. And Worst of all, on behalf of change, of revolution, of living well.
Never Again, in this case prevent the legitimate government is deposed by force of unreason and weapons, is not built with prizes to throw salt in the wounds, it is not done with praise and free gifts , on grounds of due obedience and final court nor forgive, I built with justice, memory, truth, Repairers acts dignity and worth inherent in every human being, as they say the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all international copyright conventions signed by Bolivia.
What democracy tells us when the criminals walk the streets, officials are pardoned by the word of a leader, the memory is replaced by a pragmatic desire to forget, justice by flattery, as hundreds of graves lie empty?
would be nice, president Evo, not only political and dismissive response to all these questions in three sentences of a rushed press conference, but an open dialogue on these issues, a dialogue without fear and to society and the martyrs who gave their lives so that you are where you are, but above all, to open the great avenues to real possibilities for a better future.
Sincerely
Bedregal Ximena Sáez
CI LP 241308
MISREPRESENTATION OF HISTORY AND FORGET THE MARTYRS OF DEMOCRACY
Ybarnegaray Jenny Ortiz
How sad the role of the Chamber of Deputies, distort history, to forget the martyrs of democracy and reward the armed forces medal has the name of one of the "disappeared" by the same institution. Bolivian and as revolutionary as I plead offended and humiliated by size shamelessness of MIS and MIS LEGISLATORS LEGISLATORS.
Anybody can clarify who / is invented / aron that date of "foundation" of the army "Bolivia"? To my knowledge, Bolivia was founded on August 6, 1825, before that there could be, there was no "Bolivian army," and if they want to take over the heroic guerrilla and the heroic guerrilla independence to build a false idea of \u200b\u200b"continuity" between the war of independence and the republic, the government should Upper Peruvian call them as it was called this territory before taking the name of Bolivar. And for your information, the war of independence began in 1809, not 1810.
What consistency between the construction of a Multinational State "recognizes and claims that all pre-existing nations (the colonial period) in this territory and the" creation "of an" army "pre-Republican when the "new history" teaches us that the Republic of Bolivia, from 1825 to 2006 there was only continue with colonialism?
Can anyone explain or enlighten us on what they are or what they are "The contribution and dedication to service immeasurably in defense of democracy" of the armed forces? Is it that can be considered "immeasurable contribution to the defense of democracy," the simple fact that since 1982 there was again hit as usual? Since when does the simple fulfillment of duty is considered "immeasurable contribution"? Do you have to thank for not again give coups? Why not give them back? By "democratic vocation" or because they found the right conditions? Or because the rule-sponsor of all strokes, understood that it was not going to dominate this town?
Can anyone enumerate other 'glories and triumphs "of the Bolivian army would not have to do with massacres the people? Is it that once the Bolivian army had the "glory" to defend a homeland and keep girón to Bolivia? What international war won the Bolivian army? The only "glory" that can be proud were overcome in Ñancahuasu Che and the guerrillas peppering Teoponte ...
How long the army helped to find the remains of Marcelo? Both contributes that insists on esconconderlos! So they feel "sorry" and that "people go by and the institutions are" AS IS AT THE INSTITUTION At that rewards, not rewarded the "newcomers" or I have trouble understanding?
And the deputy Arce much respect the feelings of the family Quiroga Rev gives a damn what they say and does what he is pleased, using the name of Marcelo to reward the armed forces, why not rewarded with the name of his grandfather Esteban Arce? Maybe then I would not mind so much his "act" muscle-flexing of "recognition of the glorious armed forces."
Sad day for democracy in Bolivia you already live in times of "counterrevolution"?
