255. In the context of those actions to strengthen the Office of the Special Prosecutor,
it should adopt a strategic plan directed to duly prosecute and punish the perpetrators
of acts of violence against women committed during the civil-military dictatorship.
E.2 Training and sensibilization of personnel of the Armed Forces
256. The representative, in its brief with petitions and motions, asked for an order
to modify the study plans in the Armed Forces so that they include a topic on human
rights “specifically and transversally in all the training.”283
257. The State indicated that the National Army issued a communiqué that expressed
its willingness to “develop a process of analysis to strengthen the knowledge of its
members […] on the historical reality of the 1958-2000 period.”284
258. The Court welcomes the State’s “willingness” to “strengthen” the knowledge of
the members of the armed forces on the “historical reality.” The Court takes note of the
information presented by Uruguay, while observing that it does not refer to permanent
or continuing acts of training and sensibilization. Therefore, in view of the nature of the
events that gave rise to the human rights violations declared in this case, the Court
orders that State, within one year, include in the training or study plans of the members
of the Armed Forces, with the respective assignment of funds, training courses relating
to human rights that include, in addition to other relevant aspects, content on the serious
human rights violations committed during the dictatorship, their incompatibility with
international law and the necessity and importance of avoiding their repetition.
F.
Other measures requested
259. The Commission requested, as a measure of reparation, the strengthening of
the apparatus of justice. It also requested that the Court order the training of justice
operators, including the incorporation of a focus on gender (supra para. 238).
260. The representative coincided with the requests of the Commission. In addition,
in its brief with petitions and motions, it requested that “the Ministry of Defense […] be
required to make available the complete archives, not only those that are in its
headquarters but also those that might be hidden in other military facilities, and that it
should carry out an exhaustive investigation of each case and punish anyone responsible
for hiding archives.”285
It alleged that such a measure “is justified when it is taken into account that members of the Armed
Forces have systematically defended those responsible for crimes against humanity.”
283
The State remitted a document of November 6, 2020, in which the National Army manifested its
”institutional goal” to conduct an analysis of the “historical reality” indicated by the State, as well as to hold a
specific “academic activity,” as an “initial step” in that process (evidence file, annex XIV to the answering brief,
fs. 2672 a 2674).
284
Regarding this request, formulated in those terms in the section on reparations in the brief with
petitions and motions, its petition in that document alluded to the “furnishing of information” and not of
“archives”; it specified that such information concerns “the whereabouts of the detained disappeared” and
should not be limited to the Ministry of Defense, but rather referred to the State, in general terms, and it
added the request that the State “duly” identify the detained disappeared persons and deliver their remains
to their next of kin. In the public hearing, the representative requested that the Court “urge the State that it
immediately, and through the competent authorities, order the delivery to the national institution of human
rights and to the families all the information concerning the military operatives, files and ranks, specifically
that they obtain the archives on the operations of the repressive agencies of the dictatorship […] as well as
the archives that are outside the country and might serve to clarify the cases.” In addition, it requested that
the Legislative Branch be urged to adopt actions to overcome the “difficulties of implementation and
285
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