38 years later Holocaust Justice Palace There are more doubts than answers on several aspects concerning both the M-19 guerrilla takeover and the public forces’ recovery operation.
This Thursday, at a public hearing, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) An official request has been made to carry out all the necessary procedures so that the US authorities can remove from the archive the documents they have containing information about the recorded events November 6th and 7th, 1985.
Helena Urán, daughter of the deputy judge of the State ChancelleryCarlos Horacio Urán, called on the JEP judges to use all existing cooperation mechanisms to gain access to these documents.
This is to confirm the versions that indicate that the Military forces They already knew about M-19’s takeover plan courthouse, and the Army’s implementation of a “mousetrap plan” to corral the subversives and attack them within the facilities.
“Call on the President of the Republic to formally request the US government to launch a program “Special release of files and documents directly related to what we have erroneously described as the seizure and recapture of the Palace of Justice,” said Urán, who is currently part of the Center for Historical Memory.
In a letter sent five months ago, Urán had asked the JEP Carry out the work to give new meaning to “the places around the Palace of Justice where the most gruesome crimes were committed,” including the Vase House Museum, North Canton and South Cemetery.
Those saved by the people Public violence. However, several witnesses claimed that the military “tagged” a group who were taken to the second floor for questioning. because they assumed that they had been involved in the takeover along with the M-19.
In the case of the northern canton, where the National Army Cavalry School, Another group of people, including several members of the M-19, would have been transferred to continue the torture. According to various documents, several of the victims were buried in a common grave in the southern cemetery.
“It wouldn’t just be the way to deliver justice that would help the victims but it would also allow us to open the debate with the rest of society. “We cannot continue to walk past public places used to commit war crimes and pretend nothing happened, we cannot keep this open secret as taboo, we must make visible what they wanted to hide,” he explained in his writing.
At the beginning of the legal proceedings there is the judge of the recognition chamber Gustavo Salazar commented deeply on what happened. “H.“38 years ago, the Palace of Justice became not only an event and a very serious war crime, but also a mark, a scar and disgrace, one of the grossest examples of cruelty and disgrace in a country full of atrocities,” he added: “The The Palace of Justice must be able to serve as a reflection of a society that, tired of violence, has applauded to the point of exhaustion and has carried the violent on its shoulders. The Palace of Justice is in many places.”
Almost four decades later, the truth was hidden from them victims and the country, In general, he pointed out that it is necessary to “build a truth and a memory to close the door to the tyranny of violence, gun politics and the crushing stigmatization of differences as a prelude to crime; it is an ethical condition.” “Minimum to forge a democracy.”