Argentina Pulls Facade Off Ugly Past. Hector Tobar.
by Tobar, Hector; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 47Human Relations. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Argentina -- History -- Dirty War (1976-1983) | Argentina -- Politics and government | Human rights | Human rights -- Argentina | Memorials | Prisons | Reconciliation | Victims of crimesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "For more than 20 years, the imposing buildings on this capital's Liberator Avenue have stood as a conspicuous monument to denial. As many as 5,000 people were killed inside the notorious Navy Mechanics School, used as a concentration camp by Argentina's military junta....Yet since the end of the 'dirty war' that right-wing death squads and the junta waged against 'subversives' in the 1970s and '80s, naval officers have continued to work inside the fenced campus as if nothing happened there." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reveals how plans to turn "a former prison camp into a memorial is one of President Kirchner's steps toward reconciling with the legacy of the 'dirty war.'"| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Argentina Pulls Facade Off Ugly Past, March 6, 2004; pp. A5.
"For more than 20 years, the imposing buildings on this capital's Liberator Avenue have stood as a conspicuous monument to denial. As many as 5,000 people were killed inside the notorious Navy Mechanics School, used as a concentration camp by Argentina's military junta....Yet since the end of the 'dirty war' that right-wing death squads and the junta waged against 'subversives' in the 1970s and '80s, naval officers have continued to work inside the fenced campus as if nothing happened there." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reveals how plans to turn "a former prison camp into a memorial is one of President Kirchner's steps toward reconciling with the legacy of the 'dirty war.'"
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