The Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance is heading a movement to motivate the Medina administration to create a Trujillo Victims Truth Commission, as reported in Hoy. The commission would bring to the open the political violence and terror the nation suffered under the Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina regime. It would also seek to officially demystify concepts regarding economic, political and ideology gains during the Truijllo Era (23 February 1930 to 16 January 1962).
Roberto Alvarez, one of the main supporters of the commission, says the state has a historic obligation with the innumerable victims of the dictatorship, including the Dominican people, to establish an enduring balance between memories and truth, strengthening democracy and the rule of the law in the country. He said there has not yet been a commission of truth because of a lack of political will.
He says that a recent Gallup poll revealed that Trujillo is one of the most admired personalities of all times among Dominican voters, rating above Guillermo Moreno, Hipolito Mejia, Jacobo Majluta, Francisco Alberto Caamano and Margarita Cedeno. A matter of even more concern, he says, is that the dictator appears as a more admired politician than Juan Bosch, Antonio Guzman Fernandez, Danilo Medina and Leonel Fernandez.
http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2013/6/30/487681/ReportajeComision-de-la-VerdadUna-propuesta-que-busca-desnudar-dictadura