Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice

[Dim Witty]

Come to La Plaza de Mayo tomorrow to commemorate the 30,000 victims on the anniversary of the March 24, 1976 military coup d’état. Keep memory alive.

 

[Quilombo]

I don't need a calendar reminder because every year, and with increasing loudness the Mileistas engage in dictatorship apologia this time of the month/year.

Take a look at Twitter: Trending in Argentina "It wasn't 30,000" - disgusting people hiding behind screens.

They remind me of holocaust deniers who say it wasn't 6 million/didn't happen, but simultaneously think it was both a good thing and should have been more.

 

[antipodean]

The government announced they will now declassify all documents relating to this era, something which no Argentine government to date has done. Seems this act has caused discomfort in some sectors who seek to politicize memory of the victims of atrocities and violence committed during this era by denying the right to memory to some.

Anyway here is the official video released by the government yesterday which promotes a more inclusive memory of all victims, not just one side or those who suffered at the hands of one kind of leadership. Interesting to note that while condemning the executions and forced disappearances committed by the military of the day, they also acknowledge and condemn the forced disappearances committed by Juan Perón and Isabel Perón in the years prior, as well as the murders and violence committed by left wing terror groups.
There is also a detailed explainer around their take on the 30.000 number and and an excerpt from the interview with ex-Montonero Luis Labraña. (A number which if 30000 or 3000 doesn’t change the fact that serious crimes against humanity were committed).
It makes for an interesting shift in Argentine official dialogue by a democratically elected government.

 

[FrankPintor]

I don't need a calendar reminder because every year, and with increasing loudness the Mileistas engage in dictatorship apologia this time of the month/year.

Take a look at Twitter: Trending in Argentina "It wasn't 30,000" - disgusting people hiding behind screens.

They remind me of holocaust deniers who say it wasn't 6 million/didn't happen, but simultaneously think it was both a good thing and should have been more.

Even worse, the perpetrators went to extreme lengths to disappear the evidence, and the victims, and then claim that it couldn't possibly have been so many.

As we discussed this time last year, the 30,000 figure wasn't actually picked out of the air, no matter how many trolls want to flood the zone, there are serious indications that it may very well have been that many.

Is Milei serious about the declassification of records kept at the intelligence agency SIDE? Hasn't he already fired everyone at the National Archives who might curate them? From the BA Times "The Archivo Nacional de la Memoria is now run by Natalia Oriolo, an expert in cryptocurrencies", that pretty much says it all: just more trolling.