Ethics Commission against Torture (CECT www.contralatortura.cl) is an advocacy of human rights has generated its own space since its founding ten years ago, personalities, priests and religious workers and linked to the world population, which working with former political prisoners, former members of the resistance to the dictatorship, social organizations and human rights professionals profound democratic convictions. born when the official level in Chile did not speak of torture and political imprisonment, because the negotiated transition was only able to recognize the early victims of enforced disappearance and shot and executed (Report Rettig), obscuring the political imprisonment and torture and protecting the perpetrators. currently suing the State Commission is continuing the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture so that you can build a national mechanism for investigation and prevention of this scourge, and ensure that people continue to die after abuses committed by agents of State. The Ethical Commission Against Torture participated in activities commemorating the 31st anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Arnulfo Romero (San Romero of America) that took place on 23 and 24 March.
by the good memory. The first major task
which gave the Ethical Commission Against Torture, was carrying out a campaign called "Torture Never Again" and pointed to require the State of Chile to create an instance of truth, justice and reparation for survivors of torture during the dictatorship military. A massive act good memory was held in Building 2003, Gabriela Mistral - the former UNCTAD times Allende, where special guest, among other artists, the Uruguayan singer Daniel Viglietti. There
publicly sympathized with the demands of the organization, prominent foreign diplomats as Nils Frode (former Ambassador of Norway) that had been in Chile for dictatorship, and others who had been instrumental in solidarity from Europe, who have been honored for the first time.
In this act also gave the first public tribute to all the resistance fighters, the anonymous and known, the living and the dead with a video of the good memory that was showing photos of the fallen to keep showing also the names of those who helped in Chile and abroad, in the resistance struggle. The guest "star" was the Lutheran Pastor Helmut Frenz, a German national, who was returning to the country for the first time since his expulsion by the dictatorship in October 1975 as a member of the Committee for Peace. He worked at the head of Amnesty International in Germany, from where he continued to support the struggle against the Pinochet dictatorship.
The Ethics Committee against Torture considered fundamental to the theme of memory to show future generations why they fought the fallen in the years of repression and what were the values \u200b\u200bthey espoused.
As part of the activities that took place the 30th anniversary of the coup, the Ethics Commission settled with the corporation who directed Ayun-Liberona Carlos, a member of the Commission, now deceased, a plaque in recognition of international solidarity the local street Santa Monica, where he started the Committee for Peace in Chile. Then took place the seminar "Memory as the strength of the story: Chile 30 years after the coup" in the museum Vicuña Mackenna, and papers were published in a book of the same name. There has publicly testified Cantillana actor Igor - who had flown in specially from Sweden with her theater group Sandino experience of torture and detention in Chile. The poet Oscar Aguilera released "Blindfolded", focusing on the passage through clandestine torture centers and detention. For the first time spoke out loud of torture and torturers, breaking the climate of censorship and fear prevail. Building a visit
country of the Nobel Peace Prize, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, was the public launch of "Moral Covenant against Torture" with the slogan "Never Torture on behalf of all ... coined by Archbishop Romero, and began a massive signature collection citizen in places and at all events to be conducted throughout the country to sign the pact, throughout the year.
The Ethics Commission then the government demanded the formation of a government commission to study the cases of imprisonment and torture during dictatorship, demand soon caught on, when then President Ricardo Lagos - who received the delegation Helmut Frenz comprising international and former ambassadors from Norway, Nils Frode, among others, announced the creation of so-called Valech Commission, which finally addressed the issue of political imprisonment and torture.
Their findings were important but insufficient as these fighters for human rights, especially criticized the government's ban on making public the names of the torturers, established in the decree that created the instance and subsequently endorsed by the Chilean courts. Lara Hervi
stresses that the museum Vicuña Mackenna the entity held a seminar with leading liberation theologian, Joseph-died Comblin in March this year, on "Ethics, Politics and Human Rights'
The recent reopening of the Commission rating of Political Imprisonment and Torture that received thousands of new cases, also responded to a complaint raised steadily over the years by the Ethics Commission, has denounced the secrecy while the Concertación government gave testimony on torture and political imprisonment and stressed the need for truth, justice and reparation.
Fighting clemency to criminals has been a task that the Commission takes up strongly in the new political conditions.
A review of ten years work Hervi Lara, coordinator of the Ethics Commission said today in Chile, torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatment are a daily practice of the police in response to social movements, which is exercised in prisons and in searches Mapuche communities in which instructors are also involved staff of the Armed Forces, all of which operate in complete impunity, in the absence of mechanisms for research and prevention of this scourge, and the lack of legal definition of torture .
The Commission has reported the training-indeed, the deformation-received by members of the Armed Forces Carabineros, and participates in the campaign to get them to stop sending Chilean military to study at the former School of the Americas, responsible for "training" of 195 members of the Armed Forces in 2008 under the same system
officers trained torturers of the DINA and CNI.
Stop Police Violence.
The vision of the Ethics Commission regarding the use of torture in Chile today is based on work conducted in areas that until recently were not made by human rights organizations, for example, repression of communities and social activists of the Mapuche people, the criminalization of social protest, and utilización de montajes político-policiales para intimidar a sectores movilizados.
En 2008 la Comisión Ética llevó adelante una campaña bajo el lema “Alto Ahí, Basta de violencia policial”, junto a Amnistía Internacional y organizaciones sociales y sindicales, orientada a denunciar la creciente violencia ejercida por carabineros contra jóvenes estudiantes y trabajadores.
En esa oportunidad, la Comisión analizaba que en Chile se estaba aplicando la lógica de la "guerra preventiva", la que de manera real o virtual "divide al mundo en enemigos y amigos". Denunciaba ya hace tres años, que en Chile han sido declarados “enemigos” los jóvenes que expresan su descontento by the absence of prospects for future students who oppose the commodification of education union workers fighting for decent working conditions and Mapuche demands the restitution of their ancestral lands. Pastor Helmut Frenz
argued then (Michelle Bachelet's government) had the impression that the leaders "accepted the legacy of Pinochet's system at the beginning by God, but found it easier to govern in an almost dictatorial that within a true democracy. "
At that time denounced as unacceptable in Chile has to ask permission for public processions and Carabineros to break up demonstrations acting under a decree published in dictatorship, under number 1806 1983.
Annual Reports.
Each year the Commission published a documented report on the status of the country in relation to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and the steps taken in relation to reparation for victims and punishment to the offenders.
These dossiers submitted to successive governments have achieved wide national and international outreach organizations such as the International Federation Against Torture and human rights commissions and the rights of indigenous peoples of the United Nations, among others. Listings de prisión política mapuche y de muertes por tortura elaborados por la Comisión Ética Contra la Tortura, y documentos de análisis sobre la violencia institucional, y las demandas no resueltas de importantes sectores de la población chilena, se han constituido en valiosos elementos de apoyo a la lucha de los movimientos sociales, que han sido retomados posteriormente también por otras organizaciones sociales y de DDHH.
En Europa se ha constituido una sección Exterior de la Comisión Ética Contra la Tortura que cumple un rol de vocería y lobby ante las instancias internacionales. El Dr. José Venturelli asistió como observador internacional al juicio realizado en Cañete contra luchadores sociales mapuche, elaborando a report on the irregularities, improprieties and violations of due process that occurred there, allowing the conviction of four indigenous leaders.
The Commission made several public appeals and collected signatures of hundreds of people to demand an end to the application of the Patriot Act and reform of military justice that is not applied to civilians and the military who commit criminal acts are tried by civilian courts.
In this context, the Commission noted that the Council of the UN Human Rights has referred to the State of Chile, the necessary integration of the definition of torture in the Penal Code, in such a way that conforms to the Convention UN to ensure the impartial investigation. Organizing
impunity.
The Ethics Commission also expressed its willingness to welcome "to the families of those who have been victims of police abuse, who have suffered harassment and torture, which have lost their lives at the hands of police and military, and people and social organizations who have been victims of mounts from government officials in collusion with the press linked to the owners of economic power, to denounce these events before national courts and international human rights organizations to identify and punish those perpetrators, calling for an end to torture. Also
considered mandatory to investigate the violent actions that have compromised physical, mental and moral of those affected, especially those who are now the subject of "assemblies", as in the case of the Mapuche political prisoners and prisoners of the " Case bombs found on hunger strike for several weeks .-
Lucía Sepúlveda Ruiz. www.periodismosanador.blogspot.com
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