Concern and annoyance were generated among the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees (AFDD) of Ñuble and the officials of the local National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) to learn that among the nine retired military personnel recently convicted for their responsibility in the crime of qualified kidnapping of Luis Alberto Corvalán Castillo (agronomist engineer, 27 years old, PC activist and son of the general secretary of the same party, Luis Corvalán Lepe); the father of the regional director of the organization, Isabel Amor Alfaro, was present.
This is the assimilated doctor Manuel Antonio Amor Lillo, who must serve 3 years and one day in prison, as an accomplice to the crime once morest humanity.
The AFDD sent a letter to the national director of the INDH, Consuelo Contreras, in which it expressed that “certainly, we are not in a position to prosecute the regional manager for the crimes for which her father is convicted. However, it seems entirely relevant to us, especially considering the investiture of the position that she has within the institution, that her family relationship with a torturer would have become transparent, in addition to her position regarding this fact that marks the saddest and darkest years. of our recent history.”
In the letter they demanded that the INDH “inform us if at the time of their hiring they were aware of this fact, and if so, why this very important information was not revealed to us. Human relationships, among other things, are strengthened and advance in mutual trust, which we feel has been broken by the omission of this situation, which is why we request the dismissal of Isabel Amor Alfaro from office. Furthermore, as a human rights organization we will not sit down to work in any instance without the INDH first giving us an explanation regarding it, or holding a face-to-face meeting with the regional manager, with whom we need, for a healthy coexistence, to clarify the facts”.
In this regard, the president of the AFDD of Ñuble, Teresa Retamal, mentioned to La Discusión that “the INDH traveled to Chillán and we held a meeting. As always, there is nothing to do regarding this situation, only time will tell us if the concepts of respect for human rights are valid on the part of the regional director of the INDH,” he stated, stating whether they will consider her from now on. forward a valid interlocutor, “we have to see the steps to follow,” he said.
Asked precisely regarding the relationship of the organization at the local level with the AFDD, Isabel Amor stated that “a large part of this situation was generated by lack of communication, and we have already generated the first instance to correct the problem. Personally, I don’t see any drawbacks to continuing with the relationship,” she stated.
Support from the INDH
The Association of INDH Officials, meanwhile, also expressed its concern to the national leadership regarding the issue. Specifically, he asked for an official position on the matter.
The national director, Consuelo Contreras, responded that “at the time of selecting the candidate, the Judiciary had not issued the conviction once morest her father, therefore, the management and council of the INDH were not aware of the result of the “that judicial process, however the candidate had informed the management that her father was being investigated due to events that occurred during the dictatorship, without delving into the details, type of crime or facts investigated,” he stated.
Contreras stated that “the regional head of the INDH headquarters in Ñuble has formally expressed her concern regarding the matter, and the importance of there being no doubt regarding her condemnation of crimes once morest humanity,” conveying “the most absolute certainty that he would never be available to defend any type of human rights violation, whether from the past or the future.”
Likewise, he gave an account of Amor’s trajectory of almost 10 years of work, “dedicated solely to the defense and promotion of human rights, which reflect its commitment to the institutional mission, as well as the multiple activities around the 50 years of the Coup d’état developed by the headquarters that he leads, and that every time he has had the opportunity to reaffirm the urgency of truth, justice and reparation, he has done so.
He concluded by saying that “the INDH is convinced that, in a democratic State of Law, criminal responsibility is always exclusively individual. This is a great achievement of modern Criminal Law, compared to previous systems in which penalties and sanctions might even reach some generations of descendants of the affected person.”
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