ECONOMY

A recognition of the policies of memory, truth and justice and non-repetition in Argentina

The Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, Horacio Pietragalla Corti, analyzed the importance of the decision of the UNESCO Committee to declare the ESMA Site of Memory Museum as a World Heritage Site.

  • 25/09/2023 • 22:30

Tuesday was a day of great joy for those of us who want an Argentina with Memory, Truth and Justice. The inclusion of the ESMA Memory Site Museum as a UNESCO World Heritage site fills us with pride and is an enormous international recognition of the human rights policies that the three powers of the Argentine State have been carrying out to prosecute, remember and repair the serious crimes committed. during the last civil-military dictatorship. This is a fact of unique relevance in our history that vindicates the struggles and historical flags held by the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the relatives and survivors and which were converted into public policies by Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. and that continue to this day. In addition to highlighting the exceptional universal value of the place, the international community considered that the ESMA Memory Site Museum is associated with and representative of the illegal repression carried out and coordinated by the Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s. The Site of Memory Museum is an essential space for reflection on these events that allows us to look into our recent history and learn the stories of the thousands of companions who were victims of that criminal madness. Inaugurated in 2015 in the building where the ESMA clandestine detention, torture and extermination center operated, it is a testimony about State terrorism based on the forced disappearance of people and about the capacity of Argentine society to repair what happened through of the trial of those who were involved in the illegal repression.