Monday, September 26, 2016 Crucial IACHR visit remembered at ex-ESMAHuman Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj (second from left) discusses the importance of the IACHR (Inter-American Commission of Human Rights) on the 37th anniversary of its 1979 visit to Argentina during the last military dictatorship. The event was moderated by ex-ESMA Museum Director Alejandra Naftal, who herself had been a prisoner at another clandestine detention centre. It was only last year that former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner inaugurated the renovations to the ex-ESMA officers’ quarters memorial site. When the Buenos Aires province’s human rights secretary spoke, he remarked how the ex-ESMA is not only a symbol of pain but also a symbol of hope, thanks to all those that work at the memorial sites and towards their preservation. “This reflects the realities that the newspapers had to deal with, at a time when 90 percent of the newspapers were complicit with the last military dictatorship.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 26, 2016 02:37 UTC