Over 45 Cases of Human Rights Abuses Committed by Ecuadorian Military Personnel

Press conference on the report about the acts of military and police violence during the declaration of non-international armed conflict. July 11, 2024 Photo: @inredh1

July 11, 2024 Hour: 8:20 pm

Of the 45 complaints, 19 cases of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment were identified.

The Regional Human Rights Advisory Foundation (Inredh) of Ecuador recorded 45 cases of violation of rights by police and military officers, according to a report published on Thursday on human rights violations during the declaration of Decree 111.

The report documents that the number of possible human rights violations has been collected on the excesses committed by the Police and the Armed Forces in Ecuador during the first quarter of 2024 after the declaration of President Daniel Noboa of the Armed Conflict No International (CANI).

During a press conference, the Inredh specified the human rights violations and detailed that the public complaints of citizens made from January 8 to April 8 of this year were analyzed.

«Between January and April 2024, the Inredh team registered a matrix with about 45 citizen complaints made through social network X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook and digital media; this prior to an analysis of the digital content published to identify the veracity of the sources of information», details the report.

Hoy, jueves 11 de julio, Inredh presentó su informe sobre violaciones de ddhh durante la declaración de CANI, que analiza las denuncias públicas de la ciudadanía del accionar de las fuerzas públicas dentro de esta declaratoria. *Ver informe completo aquí* https://t.co/CorY6VYbPW pic.twitter.com/x2NYuwoyJ5
— INREDH (@inredh1) July 11, 2024

In the presentation of the text, the president of Inredh, Verónica Yuquilema, affirmed that “of the 45 cases collected, the majority respond to popular classes that have been humiliated, mistreated and have also been victims of extrajudicial executions”.

According to the report, of the 45 complaints, 19 cases of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, five illegal and arbitrary detentions, four extrajudicial executions, three enforced disappearances in state custody and 12 cases of violations of communities were identified.

He also argued that 80 percent of the victims were men and the average age ranged from 18 to 30.

At the same time, he insisted that the indigenous, Montubio and Afro-descendant communities and the most vulnerable sectors suffered the most from this type of human rights violations.