Thousands of students are mobilizing, as every September 16, in the city of La Plata to commemorate “The Night of the Pencils”when ten high school students were kidnapped and tortured on this date in 1976, as part of a political activism demanding student tickets.
The call began at 2 p.m., and was promoted by the Union of Secondary Students (UES) from the capital of Buenos Aires.
The mobilization started from the Olazabal Square, Located at 7th and 38th, with a large presence of students, political, union, social organizations and Human Rights organizations.
On social media, the UES published: “For the country they dreamed of: regular prison for the genocidaires, decent schools for the kids. 48 years after ‘The Night of the Pencils’, mobilize with the historic Union of Secondary Students of La Plata.”
What is The Night of the Pencils?
On the night of September 16, 1976, a joint operation of police officers and the Battalion 601 of the Army. Thus, they captured ten young people, most of them were members of the Union of Secondary Students (UES), who They were demanding free high school student tickets, the benefit of which had been suspended by the dictatorship..
After their kidnapping, they were taken to the “Arana” clandestine detention center, where they were tortured for weeks, and then transferred to Pozo de Banfield. To date, Claudia Falcone, Francisco López Muntaner, María Clara Ciocchini, Horacio Ungaro, Daniel Racero and Claudio de Acha remain missing. Gustavo Calotti, Emilce Moler, Patricia Miranda and Pablo Díaz are the only survivors.
Of the ten kidnapped, Daniel Racero (18 years old), María Claudia Falcone (16), Francisco Muntaner (16), María Clara Ciocchini (18), Horacio Hungaro and Claudio Acha (17), are still missing; while Emilce Moler (17), Patricia Miranda (17), Gustavo Calotti (18) and Pablo Díaz (19) managed to survive.
To remember this, since 2014, September 16 is National Youth Day, by Law 27,002.
Source: Ambito
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