Argentina Identifies Remains of Student Disappeared in 1975

[Judi Lynn]

Argentina Identifies Remains of Student Disappeared in 1975
Published 17 April 2015


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Argentine activists disappeared during the dictatorship | Photo: Archive
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The identification was made possible thanks to DNA technology and the collaboration of a former military official who participated in the crime. The remains, found one year before in what used to be a detention center in the central province of Cordoba, were identified as a university student assassinated in 1975, one year before the military coup, judicial sources explained Friday.

The year of his death, Luis Agustín Santillán was studying radiology at the University of Cordoba, judge Miguel Hugo Vaca Narvaja confirmed. The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology discovered his remains in October 2014 in the ovens of what was about to become a clandestine detention center during the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983). The center “La Perla,” the most important detention center of the country after the one in Buenos Aires, received about 3,000 detainees.

The young man was kidnapped Dec. 6, 1975, along with Rosa Gómez Granja, Alfredo Felipe Sinópoli and Ricardo Saibene, all students and activists in the Peronist University Youth (JUP). Before being transferred to La Perla, they were all tortured in another clandestine center called “La Ribera,” also in Cordoba. Then their bodies were burnt in ovens located seven kilometers away from La Perla center.

After the remains were found, the former military official Ernesto Barreiro, who was prosecuted over the La Perla case, handed over the list of names of disappeared people buried in the center, which included the names of the four students, Vaca Narvaja told local Pagina 12.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Argentina-Identifies-Remains-of-Student-Disappeared-in-1975-20150417-0026.html

(Ovens were also used to destroy bodies of political prisoners in Chile, and the paramilitary death squads also have used them in Colombia, as testified by ex-AUC mass murdering narco-traffickers.)

[MisterP]

1. "Today, Argentina is at peace, the terrorist threat nearly eliminated. In the process of bringing

stability to a terrorized nation of 25 million, a small number were caught in the crossfire, among them a few innocents. ... If you ask the average Argentine-in-the-street what he thinks about the state of his country's economy, chances are you'll find him pleased, not seething"

now, this was about the "Process" starting 1976, but the precedent was under Isabel Peron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operativo_Independencia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_L%C3%B3pez_Rega
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

so you have anti-Peronists using Peronist techniques and rabid anti-Masons in a lodge!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Wow. This is material I've never read. Thank you for putting these 3 links together for DU'ers.

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