International organisations recently issued a statement denouncing decisions made regarding the Diario Militar case, or ‘Death Squad Diary’ case, which seek to shut down the case contrary to law and violating the right of families to a prompt and fulfilled justice.

Errors in translation are mine.

You can read the original, in Spanish, here, courtesy of Dr. Jo-Marie Burt, Organizaciones internacionales denuncian graves retrocesos en el caso Diario Militar.

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