They honor 30.000 victims of the U.S.-backed ‘dirty war’.
On Tuesday, millions of Argentines began mobilizations across the country to mark the “National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.”
On this date, they commemorate the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the last U.S.-backed military dictatorship, which murdered over 30,000 people as part of Operation Condor, a counterinsurgency campaign carried out in several South American countries.
On March 24, 1976, Argentina’s military carried out a coup that kept them in power until 1983. During that period, they were responsible for crimes against humanity that have not been fully uncovered to this day.
From early Tuesday, social activists, political militants, and human rights defenders began gathering in Buenos Aires, where victims of the dictatorship will be remembered in a large demonstration at Mayo Square, in front of the Argentine presidency.
The first groups of demonstrators arrived at the historic square, where the Mayo Square Mothers, with their white headscarves, have demanded since 1977 to know what happened to the 30,000 people who disappeared under the military regime.
The Peronist group “La Campora” began its traditional march from the site of the former Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) — the dictatorship’s largest clandestine detention and torture center — toward Mayo Square.
For the second consecutive year, there will be a single 24M march in Buenos Aires, as the group led by the Mayo Square Mothers and Grandmothers — aligned with Peronism — and the Encuentro Memoria, Verdad y Justicia — which includes leftist organizations — decided to once again demonstrate in unity, after nearly 20 years of mobilizing separately on this date.
Organizers of the march have asked participants to attend carrying a sign with a photo of a disappeared person and the slogan “Tell us where they are!”
The organizing groups will read a statement demanding justice for the crimes of the dictatorial regime, as well as expressing rejection of far-right President Javier Milei and his neoliberal policies.
Since taking power in late 2023, the libertarian politician has dismantled and defunded human rights policies and institutions. His official discourse questions the number of people killed by the dictatorship, reframing Argentine history as a “war” between the military and leftist armed organizations.
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Source: EFE – La Campora
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