Civil Society Demands Justice on the 30th Anniversary of the Mozote Massacre

The Monsenor Romero Coalition and the signatory organizations and persons call on the national and international community to remember that December 10th we celebrate the 63rd Anniversary of the Universal Declaraion of Human Rights and that on the 11, 12 and 13th of December of this year it will be 30 years since the Mozote Massacre.  These two commemorations invite us to continue with efforts to denounce impunity and demand that the Salvadoran government provide the truth, justice and reparations for the crime against humanity committed in El Mozote and surrounding areas. For this reason:

1.  We declare to never forget this cruel, inhumane and aberrant extermination.

2.  We stand in solidarity with the families of the victims and with the survivors

3.  We remember that those responsible for the massacres are members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.

4.  We denounce the impunity of this and other massacres and crimes against humanity, especially the murder of Monsenor Romero and its manifestations in our current time.

5.  We demand that the Salvadoran government follow the recommendations of Report 177/10 of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights about the case emitted on November 3, 2010.

6.  We urge the Salvadoran government to overcome failure to provide truth, justice and reparations in grave violations of human rights.

7.  We demand that the Salvadoran government:
      *Comply with its constituional obligations and international law in relation to human rights
      *Name a civilian as the Minister of Security and Justice
      *Cooperate with the Spanish legal system in its investigation, judgement and sanctioning of the               material and intellectual criminals behind the massacres of the Jesuits.

8.  We invite the Salvadoran people to defend human rights.

Fulfilling social and political responsibility to dgnify victims, recover historical memory and guarantee that crimes against humanity not be repeated, the people and state of El Salvador should make the Inter-American Human Rights Commissions’ conclusions our own: 

“It is an undefferable duty of the Savladoran state to settle its historic debt with the memory of the victims, their surviving families and all of society, who, 30 years after the acts, still have not been able to close wounds through truth and the sanction of those preonsbiles for these crimes against humanity.  Only when this occurs can Salvadoran society achieve long desired national reconciliation.“

Read the entire Press Release in its original spanish: Denuncia de la Impunidad y Demanda de Justica Concertacion Romero El Mozote.