"The trial brought some peace" "Until three days of torture are not sin if they help save lives," said the priests of the UP 1, according to testimony by Fermín Rivera, who first reported the executions of political prisoners in Cordoba.
Notarfrancesco By Martin, Paul Waldo Luro and Cebrero
The verdict in the trial of Videla repair not only the victims and their families. The state assumes their guilt and establishes the voice of survivors. This oral story that lasted in time to witness the atrocity is his claim in a ruling that gives value to their voices.
Within days of that day, other actors in this process examines the development of the trial and the court's findings. The feeling of mission accomplished is interspersed with new horizons and what is missing. The complicity bailed over debate set the course for further deepening the way of righteousness. The Catholic Church and the federal Justice were very committed. The cause "of judges" open against judicial officials then accused of not investigating the alleged crimes of political prisoners, and track calls.
The first report
With 34 years of waiting on the shoulders, Fermin Rivera, author of the complaint that gave rise to this cause, he is "satisfied that they have been convicted of some of the most responsible, but also that it can know the truth after decades of wanting to hide. " Fermin Rivera is a former prisoner of the UP 1 that reported, while in prison in Rawson, the executions of political prisoners. Political detainees were committed to reporting what living in prison, and he tried to do before the judges Eudoro Zamboni Adolfo Vazquez Cuesta and Ledesma, who took a statement bound and targeted by military rifles guarding him. During the trial, Rivera denounced the actions of the prison chaplains and Sabas McKinnon Eduardo Gallardo, who justified that "up to three days of torture are not sin if they help save lives." "But I also felt that they were tried only some of the perpetrators of crimes. Missing men accomplices of Justice, of the Church and those who benefited financially. None of the crimes could be committed without the complicity. This can also be a first step, "Rivera concluded.
"Now that the police officers who are prisoners tortured me, I think back to live in Argentina, because I feel the country is another very different from before, "the former policeman forward Luis Urquiza, embraced her two daughters, born in Denmark. Urquhart is a former police and the complainant of the case only "Gontero", which investigated police involvement in Cordoba in the structure of repression that commanded Luciano Benjamin Menendez. In the '90s, decided to return from exile, but in 1997 had to flee again after receiving threats from Carlos Yanicelli, one of his torturers, who was intelligence chief of police during the government of Cesar Eduardo Bautista Angeloz and Ramón Mestre. Urquiza reported during the trial that the then Minister of Constitutional Affairs of the province, Oscar Aguad, sponsored more than a hundred repressors of D2 in the police, among them Carlos Yanicelli, a man of his confidence. "Today is national deputy Aguad radicalism and occupies the Council of the Magistracy. Morally should depart from that place, "says Urquhart.
"This thing started 34 years ago, took a lot of pain. Now I can get back to my daughters. They too are victims because we had to leave the country, including democracy, lack of political will by the radical regime in then, "he concludes. Hector
Fransicetti lived from within the UP 1 repressive period ended with the shootings. From the place of victim and witness said that for them this trial was a remedy. "We are satisfied in a high percentage because most of the murderers of comrades are now facing," said excited at the door of the court, minutes of hearing the sentence. Something
peace
Rosario Rodriguez was the longtime companion of Pablo Alberto Balustra, Sanitation steward and activist who was assassinated montonero October 11, 1976. As a relative of a victim, the court gave one of the most heartfelt testimony, which served to understand the magnitude of crimes. "I am very happy to have lived this time. There were many years of suffering for us, the family. The queues outside the jail, and hospital tours to see where they were the bodies of our dead, memories are hard and now we can say that, although we returned to the family, the trial brought some peace, "say Rosario hours later, in the festivities.
"I do not I have my brother and was vital in the life of the family," Funes said Miriam, the sister of José Cristian, "El Diablito" executed on June 30, 1976. His words were carried in the gap for three decades. While appreciating the arrival of this trial, also made clear that "never any trial or any statement I will make up."
A long way
The Nobel Peace Prize, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, came to Cordoba to follow the last two days of the trial. After hearing the verdict, said he waited decades for this day. "Nearly thirty years ago we appeared as plaintiffs, along with Maria Elba Martinez, but then came the laws of impunity. Just with this government could begin to judge and it is so important that we be on this historic day. " She also appreciated the right to a defense that he respected each of the accused. In this regard, said "it speaks to the dignity of a people and a Justice. I'm sure of impunity can not build a democracy. " Carolina
Scotto, rector of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, was present, as in each of the sentences were in Cordoba. From their point of view, these trials are a step forward for generations of Argentines and Argentine who will take care of these conquests, as something that can not back. "These judgments, we require that citizens and institutions do we complete the review and recovery memory, with the courage it takes to assume the role fit for us not to repeat old mistakes. The process has just completed stripped these institutional responsibilities, including those of omission that are not healthy to the truth. "
Martin Frese The complainant was the most optimistic. Concurred with the ruling and said it "certainly has a political dimension because it challenges a part of history." CHILDREN's lawyer said that it is above all "a criminal and not a political trial." "In this light, he added, the acquittals speak well of the process because it means there was a defense that is not being condemned without evidence attesting to the accuracy required. On the other hand, how valuable, beyond the penalties, is there prosecuting those responsible. "
Looking forward
For fiscal Carlos Gonella, this trial may produce a breakdown in federal court. From there its expectation. He stated that the trial aired civilian complicity had the political genocide. He said he hoped "there may be a self urgent role that met our pairs of Justice, of which I am ashamed. I hope these complications are discussed in the basics of sentence and expedite the investigation to allow officials from the Justice for civil-military dictatorship. " Marcelo
CHILDREN Yornet is militant and said the fault finding further ahead. He said that was a collective learning have struggled alone to condemn these crimes and is now working to strengthen the real achievements that leave these judgments, the incorporation of human rights in the daily lives of people.
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