The
Brazilian Center for Solidarity to the People - CEBRASPO and the
Brazilian Association of People's Lawyers “Gabriel Pimenta” - ABRAPO
come to denounce a serious crime committed by the Joint Task Force
headed by the Paraguayan Army and also integrated by the Paraguayan
National Police and agents “anti-drugs”, which took place last Thursday,
September 3, 2020.
A
large contingent of the Army and Joint Task Forces attacked an alleged
guerrilla camp of the Paraguayan People's Army (Ejército del Pueblo
Paraguayo / EPP) in the north of this country (city of Ybi Yau).
However, the victims of the attack on this place were two 11-year-old
children, one of whom is the daughter of Dr. Miriam Villalba, a lawyer
for members of the EPP.
The
President of the Republic, Mario Abdo Benítez, in order to cover up the
dark crime perpetrated, ordered to have the children, who did not have
the physical conditions to hold a rifle, to wear a campaign uniform and
released photos as if they were dangerous terrorists. Furthermore,
he had them buried in an unknown place, alleging prevention against
COVID-19. What knowledge did had of children to claim to have this
disease? Evidently, this conduct is intended to hide proof present in
the bodies of the murdered girls and to prevent their graves from
keeping alive the memory of the crime and attracting tributes from the
people..
The
children, Lilian Villalba and Maria del Carmen Villalba are Argentines
and were in the place visiting parents and uncles who, due to
circunstances of their lives, are EPP activists. They are nieces of
Carmen Villalba, a political prisoner, who also had her 13-year-old son
murdered 10 years ago by the Paraguayan Security Forces. Do children and
relatives of political activists not have the right to visit their
family members?
There
has been a long struggle in Paraguay in which the peasantry has risen
in some regions in defense of their lands and their rights trampled by
the old state. The EPP has an existence that traces back to 2008.
The
children were born and lived in Missiones (Argentina) where 10 children
of Paraguayan peasants and family members of Carmen Villalba have
remained for several years, as the genocidal Paraguayan army does not
hesitate to murder children in an attempt to smother the struggle of its
people in blood.
This
aberrant crime violates international humanitarian law and the duty
imposed by arts. 38 and 39 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It repeats the modus operandi of the Stroessner dictatorship and the
Brazilian and Argentine aggression forces that destroyed Paraguay in the
war of 1864-70. It also denotes the incorporation, by the States and
their regular forces, of mafia methods such as attacking not directly
those who face them with the conscious risk of their own lives, but
their loved ones, defenseless and unrelated to the conflict. The current
Paraguayan state, built on the rubble of the free and dignified country
of the pre-war and later reduced by Stroessnerism to a confederation of
mafias dedicated to all types of criminal activity, is a synthesis of
all this. Let us see how the Argentine State will behave, which is
responsible for caring for its small citizens and demanding that
Paraguay be held responsible for this crime, before international
forums, and individual authors, under Paraguayan jurisdiction.
We
join the just indignation of the family and paranguayan people with
this heinous crime and demand that the Paraguayan Government, as
requested by the family's lawyers, deliver the bodies of the children to
Argentina so that they have the possibility of an exempt autopsy and
can be buried with dignity.
JUSTICE FOR LILIAN AND MARIA DEL CARMEN VILLALBA, CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN MARTIRIZED BY THE CRIMINAL PARAGUAYAN ARMY
WE
REQUIRE PROTECTION OF THE INTEGRITY OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SAVED IN
MISSIONS AGAINST ANY COWARD ACTION OF THE GENOCIDE PARAGUAYAN ARMY
ALL SOLIDARITY TO PARAGUAYAN PEASANTS
BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR SOLIDARITY TO THE PEOPLE - CEBRASPO
BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE'S LAWYERS - ABRAPO
Brazil, September 4, 2020
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