Activist: Stroessner's properties should be used to house flood evacuees
Activist: Stroessner's properties should be used to house flood evacuees
Published December 23, 2015/
EFE
Paraguayan human rights activist Martin Almada on Wednesday urged that the properties of deceased dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled from 1954-1989, be used as refuges for the more than 70,000 people evacuated in this capital due to recent flooding by the Paraguay River.
Almada, a Nobel Prize nominee, told EFE that the 100 or so shelter areas established by the government for the people from neighborhoods inundated by the rising river waters are not enough and that the problem could be mitigated by declaring the "ill-gotten properties of the Stroessner family, accomplices and accessories (to be) mandatory refuges."
The activist, who was tortured under the dictatorship, referred to two old mansions that Stroessner owned in Asuncion but which are currently abandoned as potential spaces that could house evacuees.
The larger of the two properties is in the Santisima Trinidad neighborhood and covers 7,810 square meters (some 84,000 square feet), including streets, serving passageways and spaces allocated to public buildings.
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Right-wing dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled for 35 years, with the blessings of the United States, committed genocide against indigenous Paraguayan people, and was responsible for survivors being sold as SLAVES to wealthier people who didn't want to do their own work, and didn't want to pay anyone for his work, while he did their work.
Dictator Stroessner also have haven to the Nazi "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele after he fled from prosecution following the Second World War.
