Updated to Friday 14.6.2024 21:16hs
This Friday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Argentina in the case of the AMIA attack. Unanimously, it declared the Argentine State responsible for violating the human rights of the victims of the attack against the Jewish mutual fund on July 18, 1994.
The international court ratified a previous conviction and added the violations to the “collective right to the truth.” It ruled, meanwhile, that the Argentine State “must commit to investigations and reparation measures.”
The ruling forces Argentina to formulate “structural reforms on the use of intelligence information in judicial cases and on access to documentation.”
The Inter-American Court granted the claim made by the group of victims and relatives Memoria Activa, with the sponsorship of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS).
“State authorities cannot rely on mechanisms such as state secrecy or confidentiality of information, or on reasons of public interest or national security, to stop providing the information required by the judicial or administrative authorities in charge of the investigation or pending processes,” the ruling states.
Repair acts
The State was condemned for chapters of the ruling that advance “the violation of the right to life due to the failure to prevent the attack, for not properly investigating either the attack or the cover-up, for violating the right to historical truth and the right to information, and for their responsibilities in the cover-up.
The ruling orders that the Argentine State “remove all obstacles to investigate the attack and the cover-up within a reasonable period of time.”
Along these lines, it must comply with the “construction of a public historical archive on the attack, the cover-up and the role of victims’ associations.”
One of the most important points of the ruling is that it ordered Argentina to open the files and intelligence information related to the attack and take regulatory measures in order to regulate the conditions for the entry of intelligence information into judicial cases. in reference to one of the events that diverted the judicial investigation that was to elucidate what happened.
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“The State violated the right to personal integrity of the relatives of the victims identified in the sentence,” the text expands.
In October 2022, Argentina recognized its international responsibility for the events, in hearings held in Montevideo. The Court valued this recognition and highlighted that it meant “a positive contribution to the development of the process, to the validity of the principles that inspire the Convention and to the satisfaction of the victims’ needs for reparation.”
