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Argentina’s Justice Ministry to repurpose UNESCO-recognized memory site - Argentina Reports
Argentina’s Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday that it would be taking over and repurposing a major building within the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) memory site. ESMA was a clandestine detention center during the dictatorship which governed Argentina from 1976 and 1983. Approximately 5,000 people are estimated to have spent time in ESMA during these years; many were tortured and murdered. After the dictatorship, ESMA became a museum and…
They warn that this is an illegal procedure as it is a property declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The measure runs counter to Law 26.691, which was passed in June 2011, by which State Terrorism Memorial Sites were declared to the places that functioned as clandestine centres of illegal repression.
Neither the Procuración accepted the offer nor the human rights organizations gave the approval. It is a new provocation after a follow-up of measures against memory policies and a handcuff of drowning to try to implement the accusatory system in Comodoro Py.
This was announced by the Ministry of Justice. The Code begins to be applied in the City of Buenos Aires from August 11. The Government’s decision is part of its progress against policies to keep in force the memory of the crimes of the military dictatorship. Scary finding in the former ESMA: they find a car buried that would have been used in the dictatorship After months threatening to reformulate the building of the ex-ESMA –where today diffe…
The national government, through the Ministry of Justice, announced this Wednesday the handover of the former ESMA, a space of great historical importance where the Space for Memory works, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez. The same, of 5,000 square meters, will be transferred on August 11 to the Federal Prosecutors, to work with the new criminal procedure system.
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