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The government asks to withdraw the project on declaring August 30 as the “Day of the Missing in a Period of Violence”

President Pedro Castillo sent a letter to Congress President José Williams before leaving for the United States. | Font: Presidency

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Pedro Castillo’s government has asked Congress President José Williams Zapata to withdraw executive bill which proposed that 30 August be declared “National Day for the Missing in the Violence of 1980–2000”.

Through an official letter sent to the Head of Parliament last Friday, 17 September, Executive He explained that after agreeing Council of Ministersthe initiative will be replaced by “an appropriate text recognizing the right of victims to know the truth about the circumstances of the enforced disappearance, the progress and results of the investigation.”

“We are pleased to ask you to withdraw Bill No. 2904/2022-PE, National Day of Missing Persons in the Period of Violence 1980-2000 Act,” the document, signed by the President, reads. Peter’s castle and prime minister Hannibal Torres.

In the previous Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Felix Chéro, reported that the government had agreed to drop the proposal so as not to seek “greater confrontation”, since every year 30 August is celebrated Saint Rose Day of Lima patron saint of America and the Philippines.

“We are very careful not to seek more confrontation. For this reason, the Council of Ministers agreed to propose a different date for the memory of the missing,” he said after his speech to Budget Commission Congress.

The project was rejected

As soon as it became known about the proposal of the executive branch, Peruvian Episcopal Conference expressed his opposition to the initiative to declare 30 August, the feast day of Santa Rosa de Lima, “National Day of the Missing in the Period of Violence 1980-2000”.

“Enter in Feast of Santa Rosa de Limaa parallel celebration on the same day will directly affect the celebration of this expression of popular religiosity, spread throughout Peru, ”said the letter sent to Castillo Terrones and the then President of the Congress, Lady Camones.

In this sense, the Church of Peru emphasized that human rights organizations and victims of terrorism annually celebrate August 28 as a symbolic day in connection with the presentation of the Final Report Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

“A possible date for the establishment of the National Day of the Missing would be August 28, an occasion to remind that the search must continue,” the episcopate suggested.


Source: RPP

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