50th Anniversary of the "Night of Pencils"
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In September 1976, when the military dictatorship that ravaged Argentina until 1983 was going through its first months, a clandestine operation of the security forces kidnapped ten secondary students in the Argentine city of La Plata, 60 kilometers from Buenos Aires. All of them were between 14 and 18 years old. The uniforms ripped them one to one of their homes, from their beds, in the middle of the morning, when they slept to go to school the …
Argentine police arrested ten boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 18, and six of them never returned home.
On the night of September 16, 1976 – coinciding with the 21st anniversary of the coup d’état that overthrew Juan Domingo Perón – a joint operation of police and the 601 Army Battalion was launched to capture nine young students who were between 16 and 18 years old. The secondary students [...] The entry The 50th anniversary of the “Night of the Pencils” was first published in First Edition.
The memory of the Silver students is still alive. The testimonies of survivors and relatives prevented the revolutionary sense of a whole generation from being buried. We continue to fight for truth and justice. We are not talking about the past, but about the present. Because these gentlemen who are here, who are surely very old and do not have many years of life, are applying the strongest tool of torture they now have: silence. Every day they…
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