Relatives of Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Detainees held the tribute ceremony that culminated in the La Teja cemetery.
A crowd said goodbye and paid tribute this Thursday on the esplanade of the University of the Republic (UdelaR) to the former militant Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) and the Broad Front (FA), Amelia Sanjurjowho was detained and murdered by the dictatorship in 1977 when she was 41 years old and was in an early pregnancy.
The event began at 9:30 a.m. and was organized by the NGO Relatives of Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Detainees and Sanjurjo’s relatives, and ended in the afternoon in the cemetery of the Montevideo neighborhood of The Tile.
Ignacio Errandoneaa member of Familiares, recalled to the UdelaR portal that a year ago, through a phone call, the news was received that human remains had been found in the Battalion No. 14. “Today we know that she is Amelia and we are saying goodbye to her,” she said.
“They couldn’t bear that she fought for the rights of the most unfortunate and was a woman”
“They couldn’t bear that she was a social activist who fought for the rights of the most unfortunate and that she was a woman, who stood up to them. They couldn’t break her and that was a double punishment for her,” she added.
“We remain convinced that we are going to find them all, despite the cowardly and complicit silence of the Armed Forces (FFAA)“, emphasized the representative of Familiares.
Likewise, he acknowledged: “The University (of the Republic) has always been by our side, it is a neutral place from the partisan political point of view, therefore, we understood that as a fundamental site of Uruguayan society, the most fair thing would be to do the tribute here at the University because it represents all of us.
A representative of Familiares closed the event on the esplanade after stating that “Amelia Pocha Sanjurjo Casal today returns to her home, to her family and to her people.” “Amelia, present,” she emphasized.
After the reading, the choir of the Sodre Officials Association sang the national anthem and the procession began with the remains to the La Teja cemetery.
Source: Ambito
