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Quito (EFE) .- The special team of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) which follows the case of the Ecuadorian journalistic team abducted last March at the border with Colombia and murdered in captivity, believes that After the events, "the journalists stopped covering the border".
"Because of the consultations I have done, I have the impression that the journalists of Ecuador stopped covering the border" said Expert of the precautionary measures team of the IACHR in Efe, Luz Adriana Camargo after meeting with more than twenty local, private and independent public media journalists for gather evidence about the situation in the fracture zone.
Testimonies, according to Camargo helped the IACHR's Special Monitoring Team (ESO) to "understand the difficulties with which journalistic work is carried out."
The photographer's relatives also attended the meeting Paúl Rivas of the journalist Javier Ortega and the driver Efraín Segarra killed by the armed group Oliver Sinisterra dissident of FARC and faction
About the testimony of the journalists, Yadira Aguagallo the girlfriend of the photographer Rivas, commented that the majority agreed that "there is no more reporting in the border because of the risk and dangers that can be noticed" and that "the community press was not very lucky to make public what is happening in the region ".
The IACHR team arrived last Wednesday E Cuador to intervene in the clarification of the murder of the press group and after meeting with the authorities of the government, the prosecutor's office, relatives victims and journalists, leaves the Andean country to evaluate the documentation that they collected in the meetings. ] "From this first information we collected, we will proceed to the badysis and from there we will generate the agenda for the next meeting according to the results" added Camargo [19659008]. The Commission also met with the Office of the Ombudsman to discuss issues such as possible reparation mechanisms for victims and the need for safeguards to ensure that the facts do not recur.
Meetings ended with a visit to the Office of the Attorney General to review the file
"As part of the commitments and work plan, it is important to have access to fiscal action l said the representative of the IACHR and added that the action is in reserve.
The second visit of the Commission is scheduled for late August, "the date is not yet defined because it must be planned with the state," added Camargo, insisting that the commission needs to Space to process the information and submit a first "energetic" report.
Family members hope that by knowing the context in which the events will unfold, the IACHR of the case following the investigation of the Commission, similar to that which has badyzed the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014.
"It was necessary to badyze the context, in this way one can understand why the Ecuadorian press was in San Lorenzo (in the north of Ecuador ]), which unfortunately we no longer know because there is no press in the reporting area, "added Aguagallo EFE (I)
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