On February 17 there will be a concentration in front of the headquarters of the Federal Justice, at the beginning of the “La Border” trial, which will investigate business complicity with the operation and the last dictatorship. Acts in Famaillá and Tafí Viejo.
In Tucumán, various activities are carried out that coordinate human rights organizations of the province to remember the 50 years of the start of the Independence Operation, prelude to the coup d’etat of March 24, 1976. The actions seek to make visible that such decision, which was adopted during the government of María Estela Martínez de Perónit was a stage in which crimes against humanity were committed, as a result of the application of a systematic strategy of state persecution and violence, as demonstrated in the two judgments that were processed in the orbit of federal justice.
A notorious element of Independence operation It was the beginning of clandestine detention centers as fundamental pieces of repressive methodology and Famaillá’s schoolin the homonymous municipality, in South Tucumano, it was the first in the country. After the coup d’etat, that model was replicated throughout the national territory during the dictatorship and consolidated a network that included at least 814 clandestine centers, where the State implemented systematic methods of kidnappings, torture and extermination. For this reason, the first activity was carried out last February 5 in Famaillá, the same day that Martínez de Perón signed Decree 261/75, which empowered the Army to the execution of “the military operations that are necessary for the purpose of neutralizing and/or annihilate the actions of the subversive elements. ” At first, the operation was in charge of Commander Acdel Edgardo Vilas, who was happened by his pair (then dismissed) Antonio Domingo Bussiconvicted of crimes against humanity.
In the School of Famaillá, a space for memory and promotion of human rights, a tour guided by the places where arrested vexars were committed, there was a photographic sample, survivors shared their testimonies and closed with a musical show. “My brother, Jorge Korfman, was disappeared in the Independence operation. He was kidnapped in a collective and was seen alive in the school and in the Villa Urquiza prison. For him and other colleagues there were sentences to genocides. My brother was a militant of the party Revolutionary workers and our beloved mother, queca, stirred sky and earth to find it because the operation was already the dictatorship in Tucumán. , he narrated Hugo Kofman.
This last Friday, the activities were in Tafí Viejo, where the well of Vargas is located, the pit where 119 remains of disappeared detainees were identified. 20% of those identified were kidnapped during the independence operation and this city has, so far, 25 people kidnapped and missing in that same period. The Secretary of Human Rights of the Province participated in the event at the Pozo de Vargas, Mario Racedoand the municipal mayor of Taptleña, Alejandra Rodríguez. “With our presence, once again we reaffirm the commitment to accompany the relatives of the victims and ask that the causes for crimes against humanity that are substantiated in federal justice progress,” Racedo told the scope. “This site is the forceful evidence of the horror to which our society was subjected and to which we should never return. In these denial times we raise our flags for memory, truth, justice and for the 30,000 missing, Rodriguez reflected to this medium. Both the National University of Tucumán, as well as the Legislature, “declared of interest the commemorative days organized by the human rights organizations of Tucumán.”
In the afternoon, a march was made through the downtown streets of Tafí Viejo and there was an act in Miter Square, the main of this city, where an open radio was completed, a document agreed between all organizations was read and there was a Musical show. “I was one of the many victims of the independence operation and I spent two weeks in the School of Famaillá, where they did everything. I survived, they did not have the same fate very dear friends. But I do not want to emphasize my pain, but in what which is currently happening, which requires the participation of young people to put a limit to so much pain that is being causing the weakest sectors of our society, “he told the scope Ricardo Roodschildwho militated in Peronism when he was kidnapped. “What moved me the most of the activities was the assistance of a lot Mrs. MradTucumana, member of the National Driving Table of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Both activities participated human rights organizations, victims, family members, political, trade union, social and cultural organizations.
Concentration in the headquarters of federal justice
The last activity of the month was reported to the scope, will be held in front of the headquarters of the Federal Justice, next Monday 17. There will be the preliminary hearing of the “La Border” trial, which will address the crimes committed in a clandestine center of detention within a sugar mill, in Famaillá. Four entrepreneurs face accusations for collaborating with the Army by giving up facilities, providing vehicles and providing information about workers. The cause seeks to clarify business responsibility in repression and strengthen the process of memory, truth and justice in Argentina. “It is essential that society be expressed so that the causes do not ‘sleep’, delays attempt against clarification because there are advanced witnesses,” he said Diego FernándezTapiteño and son of Diego Zoilo Fernández, kidnapped from his house, in front of his family, and killed during the independence operation.
In the judicial field, the crimes of the Independence operation were investigated and tried twice, with 270 cases examined and 18 persons convicted of crimes against humanity. Among the violations committed were forced disappearances, torments, illegitimate deprivation of freedom, violations and homicides. The courts determined that these crimes were part of a systematic annihilation plan and evidenced the responsibility of the State in its execution.
Source: Ambito
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