Monday, August 12, 2024

Peru approves impunity law for crimes against humanity


The old Peruvian State with its armed forces, police forces and auxiliary forces has consummated during all these years since the beginning of the people's war on May 17, 1980, the most infamous genocide, murdering guerrillas, prisoners of war and poor masses mainly from the countryside and also from the city, bathing in the ardent popular blood.

 May it fall upon all the miserable representatives of the Old Peruvian State, its current president the murderous Dina Boluarte, its parliament or pack of pigs, the Joint Command, the armed and police forces and other civil and ecclesiastical authorities, its puppeteer Yankee imperialism, today headed by the genocidal Biden, the indelible disgrace that the people will not forget and that only he will sanction with the people's war!

 

On August 12, 2024 – it was announced by the media that:

 Peru approves a law that makes crimes against humanity committed before 2002 subject to statute of limitations

 

 

Peru approved this Friday a law that declares crimes against humanity committed before 2002 in the fight against guerrillas to be subject to statute of limitations, an initiative that will benefit the fascist, genocidal and traitorous former president Alberto Fujimori and 600 military personnel accused of crimes against humanity.

 

The news says: “Amid the rejection of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the law was published in the official gazette after the government decided not to observe it.”

 

The text nullifies proceedings for alleged crimes committed in the “low intensity” counterrevolutionary war led by Yankee imperialism.

There are more than 69,000 dead and 21,000 missing between 1980 and 2000, according to official data, the majority for crimes committed by the repressive forces of the Old Peruvian State.

 

According to the approved norm “no one will be prosecuted, condemned or punished for crimes against humanity or war crimes, for acts committed prior to July 1, 2002,” when the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court came into force in Peru.

 

“No act prior to that date can be classified as a crime against humanity or war crimes,” highlights the law that will come into force on August 10.

The law has been described as the “Impunity Law” – “as human rights groups and relatives of victims of massacres committed by the military between 1980 and 2000 have pointed out.” The law will allow for the automatic prescription of some 600 cases of alleged war crimes that have been investigated for more than three decades, the prosecutor's office announced.

The fascist, genocidal and traitorous government of Dina Boluarte argued that: “The controversy lies in the fact that what is stated in the Rome Statute and the Convention on the non-applicability of statutes of limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity are applicable to Peru only after the publication of the law.

 

ONLY CHEST-BEATS FROM THE SO-CALLED HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

 

The initiative has generated the rejection of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights since July due to the danger of leaving unpunished extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances perpetrated by state forces, which marked the 1980s and 1990s.

 

– Rejection of the UN –

 

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights denounced on Friday that the Peruvian Congress approved this bill, which he considers contrary to international law.

“I deeply regret that this law is going to come into force in Peru,” declared Volker Türk in a statement.

According to Türk, “the law contravenes the country’s obligations under international law and is a worrying development, in a broader context of setbacks in terms of human rights and the rule of law in Peru.”

“Crimes against humanity and war crimes are among the most serious violations of international law and should not be subject to amnesties or prescription,” he said.

The Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, stipulates that the most serious crimes do not have a statute of limitations.

“The lack of accountability for these crimes, wherever they have been committed, jeopardizes the rights to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition of thousands of victims of serious violations in Peru,” said Türk.

May it fall upon all the miserable representatives of the Old Peruvian State, its current president the murderous Dina Boluarte, its parliament or pack of pigs, the Joint Command, the armed and police forces and other civil and ecclesiastical authorities, its puppeteer Yankee imperialism, today headed by the genocidal Biden, the indelible disgrace that the people will not forget and that only he will sanction with the people's war!