Government spokesman Jaime Bellolio referred to the approval of sanctions against denialism in the Constitutional Convention, defending the idea of not conscoring this measure only to the periods of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and social upheaval, as it is typified.
The ethics commission of the organization established on Wednesday that sanctions will be applied to “any action or omission that justifies, denies or minimizes, makes apology or glorifies the crimes against humanity that occurred in Chile between September 11, 1973 and March 10, 1990,” as well as “human rights violations that occurred in the context of the social explosion” since October 2019.
In this regard, Minister Bellolio said that “what one needs in this matter is a standard: you can never again justify human rights violations, nor those that have occurred in the dictatorship in Chile in the past, nor those that occur in the Latin American dictatorships of today, nor those that occur in other dictatorships in other latitudes.”
“Nor can we make an apology for violence, terrorism, political murder, and justifying violence as a method of political action,” said the minister, who also said that he hopes that “there will be no denial of any kind of violation of human rights anywhere in the world.”
