40 human rights organizations and relatives of victims of repression asked him to do so in a letter. Also senators Fabiola Campillai and Claudia Pascual, deputy Karol Cariola and legislator Boris Barrera ask that the director general resign from his position after the request for formalization by omission in the face of human rights violations. “The conduct displayed by you during the social outbreak is of the utmost seriousness because the officials in your charge carried out actions that violated human rights,” the letter stated. The lawyer for human rights cases, Karinna Fernández, a plaintiff against the chief of the uniformed police, said in the newspaper La Segunda that the request for the formalization or prosecution of Yáñez “was an obvious step in a case of this magnitude, given the strength Of the investigation”. The police chief continues with political activities, receiving leaders and legislators who support him.
“The century”. Santiago. 9/1/2024. Demands are increasing that the general director of Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, resign from his position, when the request for formalization by omission weighs on him in the face of serious violations of human rights during the days of social demonstration in 2019.
Some 40 human rights organizations (HR), groups of relatives of victims of repression, feminist and cultural groups, professional associations, sites of memory and other civil society groups sent a letter (See letter below) to the general Yáñez where they ask him to “end his functions as General Director of Carabineros de Chile for being involved in a criminal procedure as a defendant for facts that have been classified by Human Rights organizations such as Amnesty International, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , the NGO Human Rights Watch, among others, as constituting crimes against humanity and at the local level, the Public Ministry has required their formalization, attributing criminal responsibility for crimes that constitute violations of Human Rights.
That letter was signed by senators Fabiola Campillai and Claudia Pascual, deputy Karol Cariola and deputy Boris Barrera.
“The conduct displayed by you during the social outbreak is of the utmost seriousness.”
because the officials under his charge carried out actions that violated human rights,” the letter says.
María Eugenia Puelma, head of the National Human Rights Commission of the Communist Party, also joined the demand for the departure of the general director of the uniformed police.
Among the signatories of the letter are Carmen Gloria Quinta, victim of the Quemados Case, the ANEF, the 8M Feminist Coordinator, the Hermanos Ibarra Roa Theater Company, a group of councilors, the groups of Relatives of the Disappeared and Executed Politically, Relatives of the Kayser Case, among other groups and representations from all over the country.
A group, mainly of women, arrived at Zenteno Street, where the Carabineros high command building is located, to deliver the letter to the chief of the uniformed police.
Deputy Boris Barrera indicated, in the context of the request for formalization of the general director of Carabineros, for the alleged crime of omission of illegitimate pressures that occurred during the social outbreak, that “to give transparency to the process, the most correct thing is that he could give “a step aside, so as not to hinder the work of the institution, which at this moment has to be completely focused on the issue of security.”
Barrera maintained that it is most likely that General Yáñez will be formalized “for his possible participation in the violation of human rights during the Government of Sebastián Piñera, which are extremely serious facts, which we all know about, and that this letter even states They mention several international lawsuits about this, in which Yáñez would be involved along with other former high-ranking police chiefs.
The lawyer for human rights causes, Karinna Fernández, who is part of the legal team of the London memory space38, and who sponsors the complaint against General Yáñez, who as head of Order and Security was in command of the Special Forces that carried out repressive actions In 2019, he indicated in an interview in La Segunda that “complaints against the high command are a very arduous and complex collective action, where the experience of criminal lawyers, prosecutors and international human rights expert lawyers come together.”
He explained that there are two causes, one against humanity and “high command responsibility.” The lawyer said that the formalization of Ricardo Yáñez “was an obvious step in a case of this magnitude, given the strength of the investigation…” By the way, she insisted that there was “systematicity” in repressive crimes and violations of human rights.
Karinna Fernández, in the interview with La Segunda, said that in the investigation in this case “the real obstacle we face is that of a general director as the accused with a total absence of collaboration in the process.” She recalled that the officer did not appear to testify on six occasions.
Meanwhile, the general director of Carabineros continues with political activities, receiving leaders and legislators, mainly from right-wing parties and some from the ruling party, who support him.
The letter to the general director
The following is the full text of the letter that was sent to the general director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez:
“Señor
Ricardo Yáñez Reveco
General Director of Carabineros de Chile.
Gift
The signatory organizations at the National level, due to a citizen imperative that is based on the recognition of human dignity, are writing to you to request that you terminate your functions as General Director of Carabineros de Chile for being involved in a criminal procedure in as a defendant for acts that have been classified by Human Rights organizations such as Amnesty International, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the NGO Human Rights Watch, among others, as constituting crimes against humanity and at the local level, the Public Ministry has required its formalization, attributing criminal responsibility for crimes that constitute violations of Human Rights.
The conduct displayed by you during the social outbreak is of the utmost seriousness because the officials in your charge carried out actions that violated human rights, which are part of a generalized, systematic and massive attack against the civilian population, reproducing behaviors criminals that we had only experienced during the civil-military dictatorship, destroying the guarantee of non-repetition, with the result of hundreds of people with very serious eye injuries, thousands of people victims of illegitimate coercion, serious injuries and homicide. You were in charge of order and security during that period of social mobilization, and the personnel under your command carried out criminal acts that constitute crimes against humanity.
Carabineros de Chile is part of the Law Enforcement and Public Security Forces and its mission is to give effect to the law, comply with the law and respect human rights. You did none of that in that period, on the contrary, you violated the law, violated human rights and was a participant in a concerted and articulated criminal action from the high command, of which you were a part, to illicitly repress the civilian population in a brutal and inhumane manner.
It is serious and shameful that the person who heads the institution in charge of public order and security is accused of crimes against humanity. General
Yáñez, you must resign from the position and the Carabineros, your permanence weakens the institutions of the republic and the rule of law. The conflict in which you are involved has as its counterpart the Public Ministry, a constitutional, autonomous and hierarchical body that you have questioned, requiring the inability of the prosecutors who have requested its criminal formalization and in addition, during the investigation you have had conduct resistant to action. of justice.
Truth and justice, once again, are fundamental pillars for the victims of the social outbreak, and their presence in the General Directorate of Carabineros is incompatible with democratic institutions and respect for human rights.
For all of the above, we demand that you resign; the victims, citizens, democracy, the rule of law and human dignity demand it.
Atte.
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees (AFDD)
Group of Relatives of Political Executed Persons (AFEP)
Group of Relatives of Detainees of Disappeared Persons of La Serena
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees of Chillan
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees of Concepción
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees of Los Angeles
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees of Parral
Group of Relatives of Detained, Disappeared and Politically Executed of Valdivia.
Group of Relatives of the Disappeared and Executed Political Detainees of Paine
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees and Politically Executed Persons of Talca
Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees and Politically Executed Persons of the Araucanía Region.
Group of Relatives of Politically Executed and Disappeared Detainees of Iquique and
Pisagua
Group of Relatives of Politically Executed and Disappeared Detainees of Calama
Group of Relatives and Friends of the Executed and Detained Disappeared Politician of
Atacama.
Group of Relatives of Politically Executed and Disappeared Detainees of
Valparaiso
Group of Relatives of Detained, Disappeared and Politically Executed Osorno
Coyhaique Human Rights Group
Group of Detained and Missing Relatives of Mulchen
Group of Relatives of Politically Executed and Detained Disappeared Persons
Antofagasta
Coordinator of Victims and Families of Ocular Trauma
Relatives Kayser Case
Group Initiatives for the Freedom of Political Prisoners of the Revolt
Self-summoned Women October 18
Justice Coordinator for Neco
Women for Justice Against Impunity
Tralkawenu Revueltas Collective of Concepción
Group of Human Rights Victims of San Carlos
3y4 Álamos Concentration Camp Corporation
Group for Historical Memory Providencia Antofagasta
Sixteenth of October Corporation La Serena
London 38, Space of Memories
Borgoño Memory Corporation
Cerro Chena Memorial Corporation
National Stadium Memory Site
Women for Memory and Life
Maipú Human Rights Group
Foundation 1367 José Domingo Cañas Memory House
Association of Memory and Human Rights Iran 3037 ex Venda Sexy
Association for Memory and Human Rights Colonia Dignidad
El Bosque Memory Group (Fach Base site)
UNExPP of Chile
Renca Standing Memory Group
Martin Luther King Ecumenical Community
Gonzalo Muñoz Otárola Regional Human Rights Collective
Mourning Women of Arica
Feminist Coordinator 8M
Salvador Allende Human Rights Cultural Center
Coordinator 50 years of Arica and Parinacota
Women Memory and Human Rights of Arica
Legal Team of the Group of Relatives of Political Executed Persons
Coordinator of Human Rights and Memory Organizations, province of Concepción
Human Rights Coordinator of the Federation of Professional Associations
College of Teachers of Chile
Human Rights Commission of the College of Nurses
Human Rights Commission of the College of Architects
Human Rights Commission of Anthropologists
Human Rights Commission of the College of Social Workers
Human Rights Commission of the College of Psychologists of Chile
- Sánchez Fontanilla de Peñalolén
Roots of Resistance Collective
ANEXPP of Concepción
Sebastián Acevedo Human Rights Corporation
Movement against Torture Sebastián Acevedo de Concepción
Collective Memories of Bio Bio
Mutual Bautista Van Schouwen
Collective Weaving Memory of Concepción
Political Expresses of Bio Bio
Amauta Collective
UDEC Case of Concepción
United Human Rights Corporation of Concepción
Memory in Resistencia de Concepción
Women’s Development Corporation, La Morada
Oscar Romero Committee – Sicsal – Chile
Observatory for the Closing of the School of the Americas
National Group of Tax Employees (ANEF)
Confederation of Copper Workers (CTC)
Industrial Chile Constramet
PRAIS Permanent School
Agrupación PRAIS EX Political Prisoners Litoral
PRAIS Group ex-PP of Tajas Verde and Cárcel de San Antonio
Ong. Renacer PRAIS de Nuble
PRAIS users of Concepcion
Fabiola Campillai Rojas – Senator
Claudia Pascual Grau – Senator
Karol Cariola Oliva – Deputy
Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia
Boris Barrera Moreno – Deputy
Virginia Palma – Councilor of the Commune of Santiago
Matilde Pérez- Councilor of the Commune of Quinta Normal
Ana Paz Casimino – Councilor of the Commune of Renca
Claudia Castañeda – Councilor of the Commune of Independence
Bárbara Plaza – Councilor of the Huechuraba Commune
Natalia Cuevas – Councilor of the Recoleta Commune
Judith Rodríguez – Councilor of the Cerro Navia Commune
Hermanos Ibarra Roa Theater Company
National Human Rights Commission of the Communist Party
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