The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Dr. Gustavo Jalkh, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides publicly apologize for the cases of violations of fundamental rights.
Today, the international community, celebrates 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration of human rights became the project of ethics in all countries and in the fundamental rules of coexistence of mankind.
Every state has an obligation to ensure that these standards are translated into real public policy commitments to guarantee them really, so that human rights are not mere postulates policy.
In this effort to achieve its full effect, if there is anything we undertake value, if there is something we must defend at all costs is the truth, without it no justice, without which there can be no true peace.
Defending human rights is not only the first responsibility of the state, its raison d'être and its institutions. State institutions that are supported by the hard work and resources of citizens. So there is no greater betrayal of the rulers and their officials, when they run the machinery of state to threaten the life, dignity, human rights of its people, thus betraying its raison d'etre.
reprehensible acts have taken place in our country, Pages sad, dark, we should never live as a society, family tragedies that are national tragedies, intolerable abuses can not, must not go unpunished, can not be in the silence.
The Government understands that the best way to commemorate 60 years of the universal declaration of human rights is through the implementation of an international obligation pending before the Inter-American Human Rights, namely: apology public men and women whose human rights were violated by the act or omission the Ecuadorian State.
memory This exercise is not only an obligation in international decisions, should also let us in this time of change, in this era of construction of us, creating memories exemplifying those acts who can not be repeated.
Presentation of case by case apologize
The national government in compliance with international obligations and its democratic and humanist convictions presents public apologies on behalf of the Ecuadorian State:
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In memory of Professor Consuelo Benavides Cevallos posthumously to his parents and Luis Rosa Sofia Benavides Cevallos, brothers Kelly and Silvio Benavides, who fought and fight for the disappearance, torture and death Consuelo not remain silent.
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In memory of Laura Susana Albán, a victim of medical malpractice, whose death the Ecuadorian justice has left unpunished. His parents Carmen Cornejo and Bismarck Alban, who are still fighting for the punishment of those responsible for the death of her daughter.
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In memory of Wilmer Zambrano Vélez, Second Cobeña Olmedo and José Miguel Caicedo Caicedo, victims of extrajudicial killings by the Armed Forces, presented the apologies of the Ecuadorian State to family .
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To Mr Daniel Tibi, deprived of freedom and prosecuted for a crime he did not commit Baruet his wife Beatrice, his children Sarah, Jeanne, and Valerian Lisianne Tibi.
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To Mr. Rafael Iván Suárez Rosero, deprived of freedom in subhuman conditions, held incommunicado and charged without due process guaranteed to him, his wife Margaret and daughter Micaela Ramadan.
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A Mr. Juan Carlos Chaparro and Freddy Lapo, businessmen detained incommunicado and involved in criminal acts that were not tested.
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Rigoberto Acosta Calderón at which due process was violated by the institutions of justice in Ecuador.
The State thus complies with the provisions of judgments issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
However, these are not the only cases in which liability was determined by the Ecuadorian State in the violation of human rights. Additionally, 27 were signed compensation agreements with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, in which while not planned to hold a public apology, our convictions citizens require us to submit a formal apology from the Ecuadorian State. Posthumously to donate Arismendy Luz Elena and Don Pedro and Maria Fernanda Restrepo Restrepo Arismendi, the torture, disappearance and death of Carlos Santiago and Pedro Andrés Restrepo Arismendi.
Similarly, in the 26 cases in which Ecuador has accepted responsibility for the violation of human rights.
All apologies to the victims will never be enough, any damages the may compensate, but the truth can never give up. A truth that ends impunity, that truth which makes us understand that each victim suffers the whole society.
The creation of the Ministry Justice and Human Rights is the manifestation of a real commitment of the Government of the citizen's revolution to make an institutional practice justice and the conviction that only the respect, protection and guarantee of human rights is the source of true security, of real development and true democracy.
Gustavo Jalkh Röben
Minister of Justice and Human Rights
Quito, December 10, 2008
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