Asuncion, IP.- The Paraguay Human Rights Coordinator (Codehupy), which brings together more than 36 civil society networks and organizations, describes the actions of the authorities in combating the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) guerrilla group, which killed a German couple on Thursday, as “inefficient.”
The organization expressed its “deep concern” about the actions of the Joint Task Forces (FTC), the security force made up of police and military personnel created in 2013 to specifically fight the EPP.
“Once again, the inability of the State and its corresponding agencies to pursue the criminal group Paraguayan People’s Army is evident,” Codehupy said in a statement.
He also expressed his condemnation of the murder on Thursday of Germans Robert Natto and Erika Reiser, kidnapped and subsequently killed by the EPP during an armed clash with security forces.
Codehupy demanded that the Paraguayan State “carry out a serious and responsible investigation into the crime” as well as “the timely and appropriate prosecution and punishment” of those who were the masterminds and perpetrators of the crime.
However, he warned that this investigation should not serve as a cover for the “repeated practices of police and military abuse” detected in the departments of Concepción (north) and San Pedro (center), where the guerrilla activity is concentrated.
The organization also requested the implementation of a coordinated strategy between the Ministry of the Interior, the National Police, the Attorney General’s Office and the Judiciary to confront the guerrillas, “within the framework of the defense and unrestricted respect for human rights.”
The EPP has held police officer Edelio Morínigo hostage for almost seven months and last Christmas it released a teenager after nine months of captivity, reports the caracol.com.co website.
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2024-08-03 15:07:00
