Given the serious human rights
violations suffered by Chilean students who demand their legitimate right to
education in order to adequately develop their human potentials, the Ethical
Commission Against Torture
(CECT-Chile) states:
1. The government must stop repression against young and underage children, and implement its responsibility for maintaining social peace based on justice.
1. The government must stop repression against young and underage children, and implement its responsibility for maintaining social peace based on justice.
2. It
is imperative that Chile's authorities open the door to dialogue in order to overcome
social conflict, since dogmatic ideological positions do not help to solve the
problems. They rather build them up.
3. We want to express our heartfelt repudiation of the torture practices established as institutional policy by Chile's militarized police on the streets, in First Nations, Mapuche
territories and in public educational establishments controlled by municipal
agencies.
4 The State of Chile made the commitment to respect international protection
of human rights, including the International Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Acts, as well as those in the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, among others. The world has seen the violation of these
principles during evictions of schools: children beaten and injured, sexually
harassed in vans, buses and police stations, being forced to strip, as well as
being victims of "illegal express disappearances", keeping these detainees
for long periods and refusing to surrender the information required by family
and friends.
5. The
measures of Non-Repetition of the crimes
of state terrorism inflicted on the people of Chile during the military
dictatorship, are part of the Core Principles issued by the United Nations Organization
to establish truth, justice and to redress all crimes against humanity, such as
those reported here, once more. For example, today people are mentioning again the murder of Manuel
Gutiérrez (16 years, killed one year ago); the detention and disappearance of
José Huenante (16 years in 2005); the repression against children of the Mapuche
people, etc ...
Therefore,
the State must ensure the end of torture, must investigate all complaints from the
affected people, put them to civil justice trials and to condemn those found responsible.
6. All international bodies dedicated to the defense of human rights must monitor these events
and Demand from the Chilean government to implement the National Mechanism for
the Prevention of Torture, in order to ensure that its National Committee will
be directly constituted in the centers suspected of inflicting such offenses
and to initiate the relevant investigations.
ETHICAL COMMISSION AGAINST TORTURE (CECT-Chile).
Santiago de Chile, August 23, 2012.
For Spanish original version visit:
ETHICAL COMMISSION AGAINST TORTURE (CECT-Chile).
Santiago de Chile, August 23, 2012.
For Spanish original version visit:
- http://notascect.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/alto-a-la-represion/
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