Judges Present Book on Crimes of the Argentinean Dictatorship

[Judi Lynn]

Photographs of the victims of the Argentine military dictatorship. | Photo: Twitter/ @lajornadaonline

Published 21 October 2021

During an event that will take place at the "Memory Museum" in Buenos Aires on Thursday afternoon, Sergio Torres and Cecilia Brizzio will present the results of the investigation carried out on the human rights violations committed at the Navy Higher School of Mechanics (ESMA) during the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983).

From 2003 to 2019, Torres headed the Court that investigated crimes against humanity in Argentina. Accompanied by Supreme Court Judge Brizzio, he wrote a book showing details of the legal processes that allowed justice to the memory of those who were murdered and tortured at the ESMA.

The Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers President Estela de Carolotto, the Anne Frank Center Director Hector Shalom, and State Department Cultural Affairs Director Martin Granovsky will also attend their book's presentation.

"This book chronicles our effort to shed light on some of the crimes the dictatorship committed. But it also shows that it is possible to fight the consequences of such a massacre with the legal tools available," Torres said.

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So many people in the years after brutal dictatorships have used terms like "human rights violations" to describe terrorizing, non-stop tormenting, torturing, unrelenting psychological destruction of human beings. That term simply doesn't begin to cover the evil deliberately acted out upon these defenseless people, does it? For so many years US Americans never knew any US allies, or, heaven forbid, American citizens were involved in any of these moral, spiritual, criminal crimes. It was ALL swept under the rug, or whitewashed.