translated from Spanish: INDH delivered report for “multiple and serious dD violations. HH.”: “These are behaviors that repeat theself in time and space”

The National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) presented during this Monday the report on the events that have been observed since 17 October to 30 November. In this sense, the director of the agency, Sergio Micco, said that they have attended 163 times in health venues and have visited a thousand 90 times a diversity of police stations in the country. In this regard, in addition to doing an analysis of what happened in recent months, he replied that they have seen the “most serious and multiple human rights violations”, adding that it is a document that we “never thought we should write”. According to the findings of the INDH, Micco maintained that they have “robust background” to ensure that there were “in the multiple and serious period violations of human rights, not in the case of isolated facts and simple excesses”, adding that they are “behaviours that are repeated in time and space. They’ve been doing for years,” he said. On the other hand, he added that there was a number of damages, including the “indiscriminate use of riot shotguns,” coupled with “nudes” and “torture,” which is in addition to the “indiscriminate use of force against peaceful protesters.” The report also mentioned the damage, trauma and eye outbursts, caused by “riot shotgun munitions”. In this regard, Micco maintained that the INDH will deliver an analysis on these particular cases in the coming days. So far, of the complaints the agency has filed, 476 have been for “torture and cruel treatment.” Among them are six rape cases against adult men. While in relation to women, Sergio Micco argued that “we have not filed complaints for women, since we have not been made denunciaants”, although he acknowledged the difficulty and delay that would exist for victims to carry out such actions. Thus, the document concludes that “considering that the greatest number of human rights violations occurred during the term of the State of Emergency, it is totally inconvenient for the Armed Forces to participate in law enforcement tasks, for its institutional mission and lack of practical and logistical preparation.”

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