Government of Argentina dissolved this Wednesday a unit investigating missing children during the dictatorship, depending on National Commission for the Right to Identity (CONADI)considering that the rules of its creation, according to the mandate Nestor Kirchner, “It violated the separation of powers.”

“This executive body violated the constitutional regime of separation of powers, since it carried out functions of the judiciary from the executive branch and “This was a grave violation of the fundamental right of Argentines to privacy.”reads a statement from Ministry of Justice.

As stated in the ministerial portfolio, the executive power “It has assumed the authority to investigate criminal acts and has exceeded the competence of the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office.”“.

“This coincidence is serious attack on our Magna Carta which cannot be allowed. It is clear that this corresponds only prosecutor’s office investigation and promotion of complaints to “Judicial Authority”he added.

Similarly, he noted that “Previous governments They have illegally assumed the right of direct and discretionary access to information of all citizens of Argentina through the Special Investigations Division,” so “They violated people’s sacred and fundamental right to privacy.”

After this decision, Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo convicted “new attack” in search of his grandchildren, “appropriated during the last military-civilian dictatorship”.

The systematic practice of child theft was proven and condemned by the justice system 12 years ago. A crime that, in addition to the substitution of the identity of minors, included the kidnapping, disappearance, birth in inhuman conditions and murder of our daughters and daughters-in-law.

🔴Because #Grandmothers We condemn the new attack on the search for suitable grandchildren during the last dictatorship. The government’s decision to liquidate the CoNaDI investigative unit contributes to impunity.

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— Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (@abuelasdifusion) August 14, 2024

“We demand that the national government report how he will continue to develop the mission carried out by the Division, center to clarify this crime against humanity. “Requesting information from other government bodies is the main tool for solving the problem of misappropriation of minors under dictatorships, as well as under democracies,” says a statement published on the organization’s website.

“It is very important that this task, formulated between CONADI and the justice system, so important to find suitable children in times of state terrorism, does not cease.” https://t.co/INh6Ovdn5v

— Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (@abuelasdifusion) August 15, 2024

However, they pointed out that the Argentine state “does not meet international standards of constitutional rank” and guarantees impunity for the crimes that have occurred and will occur “by cutting funding, emptying and eliminating areas that address human rights issues in general and the right to identity in particular.”

(Europe Press)