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RESOLUTION Nš 1/83 CASES
OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS IN ARGENTINA April
8, 1983
CONSIDERING:
1. That since
1976, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has received a large
number of complaints alleging that many persons have been the objects of
apprehensions in their residences, places of work, or in public places,
by armed personnel, at times in uniform, who usually say that they
belong to some branch of public authority, through operations that are
significant and coordinated in both deployment and manner of execution.
Following the events described, the persons apprehended have disappeared
without any word of their whereabouts. 2. That the
Commission has opened individual cases for the petitions presented, and
has transmitted to the Government of Argentina the pertinent documents
and requested it to furnish prompt information in accordance with
regulatory provisions. 3. That the
Commission believes that the cases presented to the Argentine Government
fit the description given in the preceding paragraph. 4. That in each of
the cases included in this resolution, the Argentine Government has
furnished insufficient or unsatisfactory information that does not
clarify the whereabouts of disappeared persons. 5. That, during
its on-site observation visit to the Republic of Argentina from
September 6 to 20, 1979, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
took special interest in exhausting all possibilities to determine
exactly the truth of the present status of the disappeared persons. 6. That the
Commission has reached the painful conclusion that the great majority of
the disappeared persons have died of causes that it is unable to specify
but which, in any event, entail a grave responsibility for those who
captured or detained them. TAKING
NOTE: Of
communication SG 120 (7.12.17/7.2.Q) of April 7, 1983, in which the
Government of Argentina informs: i. that investigations of the charges and attempts to clarify the facts
have continued, and any excesses that have been proven have been
punished; ii.
that different levels of the Judicial Branch have handed down
rulings and are currently hearing cases in connection with the discovery
of unmarked common graves in different cemeteries of Buenos Aires and
its surroundings, and that it is the intention of the Argentine
Government to inform the Commission of the rulings in these individual
cases; iii.
that the Argentine Government intends to keep the Commission
informed on the development of this situation; THE
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, RESOLVES: 1. To declare that
it is the responsibility of the Argentine Government to take all the
necessary measures to clarify and resolve the problem of disappeared
persons. 2. To recommend to
the Government of Argentina: a) That it inform the family members in full detail of the status of the
disappeared persons, who, it shall be understood, are those who have
been apprehended in operations which, because of the conditions in which
they were carried out and because of their characteristics, make it
necessary to assume that public law enforcement agencies have
participated in them; b) That it keeps the Commission informed of measures adopted to put into
practice the recommendation contained in this resolution. 3. To communicate
the present resolution to the Government of Argentina and to the
petitioners. 4. To include this
resolution in its Annual Report to the General Assembly of the
Organization of American States, pursuant to the terms of Article 50 (4)
of the Regulations of the Commission, and, notwithstanding the same, the
Commission reserves the right to reconsider this resolution at its next
session in the light of any measures that the Government of Argentina
may take.
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