Several organizations have asked Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito to reopen the trial of those accused in connection with the disappearance and possible murder of Professor Narciso Gonzalez (Narcisazo).
The request was made by on the 20th anniversary of his disappearance by Anselmo Ramirez, National Council member of the Narciso Gonzalez University Workers’ Front, at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Sixto Galvan, general secretary of the Narciso Gonzalez Legal Thinktank, and Socrates Schyra, general secretary of the Narciso Gonzalez cultural and sporting area.
In the document, the organizations highlight that the suspects include a general who was in charge of Air Force intelligence at the time, a lieutenant colonel who was director of operations for Air Force intelligence as well as a major general who was secretary of state for the Armed Forces.
They maintain that neither the Dominican state nor the judiciary have clarified the facts nor offered a definitive version of what happened to the university professor 20 years ago.
They recalled that on 27 February 2012 the Inter-American court of Human Rights (ICHR) declared that the Dominican Republic was intentionally responsible for the kidnapping and disappearance of Narciso Gonzalez.
During a commemorative event, Olivio de Leon, president of the Dominican Journalists Union (CDP) said that Narciso Gonzalez was murdered on the orders of former president Joaquin Balaguer, due to his stand against his abuses of power.
He also questioned why former president Leonel Fernandez had done nothing about the investigation during his time in office and deplored the fact that the state has not paid the Gonzalez family the US$450,000 ordered by the CIDH or the US$331,000 ordered by the court to pay the Gonzalez family lawyers.
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