Yes. There are previously documented cases of these violations of human rights. Of course, we have cases of homicides that are well documented. I can hand them over to you, if you wish. There are a number of reports we've carried out, and which allow people to see that the strategy of having the army out in the streets is perhaps not the most appropriate. This gives a very bellic image, a very war-like, hard-handed front, just as you see in war itself. Therefore it becomes quite easy to justify any excess. The so-called success actually seems to mean that any means can be justified, which may be an absurd dream in achieving the final objective.
In fact we're not dealing here with collateral damage, as they have stated. We're dealing here with human beings who have suffered damages to their dignity. This disdain, this pretension of trying to reduce it to collateral damage, is the same thing as saying that human rights really do not exist when you're involved in a war. For us, this kind of statement is of great concern. It seems to us that there is a very simple logic here: there's a war and therefore all means are good so that the combatants can win. We feel that this is very dangerous. The band that qualifies itself as being on the right side feels that it is legitimized and therefore authorized to commit any type of arbitrary action. This is of great concern to us.
It seems to us all the more bothersome because the cases of human rights violations haven't been resolved. There are many cases where we see the military have committed violations of human rights, who are judged in military tribunals, but the victims themselves do not have any access to justice. There's been only one case where one member of the military was imprisoned for nine months for having committed a homicide. In most other cases, there's been no conciliation at all.
This year three cases will be going before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. At the inter-American system these are three very important cases. Two of them involve two women who were tortured and raped by soldiers from the army. These are two indigenous women. Another one is a case of two environmentalists who, because they denounced cutting the forests in Tultitlán, were incarcerated and tortured by the army. We hope these three cases will see a favourable resolution in the court, and that the inter-American court will allow the sentencing by the Mexican state and order them to improve their legislation so that they will allow civil tribunals to judge violations of human rights caused by the military.
Thank you.