A/HRC/45/45/Add.2 victims, to Salvadoran society and to efforts to ensure non-recurrence. The Special Rapporteur notes with satisfaction that one month later, within hours of taking office, President Nayib Bukele issued a tweet ordering the armed forces to remove Monterrosa’s name from the battalion. The order was carried out immediately, and photos of this highly symbolic event were widely disseminated on social media. However, it is reported that Monterrosa’s name continues to appear on the uniform badges of soldiers, who still worship him. C. Narratives of impunity 66. During the years of impunity, the political authorities repeatedly asserted that the Amnesty Act was a prerequisite for peace and national reconciliation. This assertion produced a culture of impunity and silence that permeated society as a whole and undermined the victims’ struggle. Generations of Salvadoran men and women were raised and educated in a culture that denies victims’ suffering and the need for justice for past violations. As a result, society has not been able to mobilize and overcome the horror of that violence. This is the violence that has come home to roost. 67. The ruling of unconstitutionality of the Amnesty Act implied a rupture in the narrative of impunity. However, this progress was not replicated by other sectors of Salvadoran society, including the media and powerful political factions. However, recognition should be made of the efforts to disseminate and recover memory through the national television programme “Memoria Viva”. It seems, however, that several months after the Special Rapporteur’s visit the programme was no longer on air. It is essential that all sectors of society that wield social influence take responsibility for disseminating historical memory. D. History education 68. The Special Rapporteur cannot stress strongly enough the role that the education system plays in guaranteeing non-recurrence. While, as mentioned, schools and teacher training institutes have historical memory programmes, these programmes should be updated and strengthened; the lack of knowledge and debate among youth about past violence shows how much remains to be done. As one young woman remarked during a visit to the site of a massacre: “a people that does not know its own history is doomed to repeat it”. VII. Cooperation with the regional and international human rights protection system 69. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued four rulings on the armed conflict, in the cases of the El Mozote Massacre, Serrano Cruz Sisters, Contreras et al. and Rochac Hernández et al. While the Government has taken a number of measures in terms of reparation and the search for the disappeared in accordance with these rulings, many other areas have yet to be complied with, in particular the areas related to criminal investigation and prosecution and the tracing of disappeared persons. 70. In recent years, the State has established an open and fruitful relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Council and its special procedures, as well as with the treaty bodies. El Salvador has also made progress towards the ratification of certain international instruments, such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. However, it is a matter of concern that the following international instruments have not been ratified: the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons; the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. 14 GE.20-09158