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start talking in Argentina with an argument that is particularly close to my heart. In Europe there is much talk of the Holocaust that the Jewish people suffered in the Nazi-Fascist decades. Leaving aside the controversy about how this is done every day "vend uto" from a certain political party in the name of fundamentalist Judaism (quoting Norman G. Finkelstein, the son of deported jew and now teaches at the University of Chicago), the matter is that we know almost nothing about other holocausts that occurred with different means and methods, but with u Guale ferocity and cruelty (and still are eaten in different parts of the world, just see Palestine). We refer here in particular to the eight years of military rule that have characterized Argentina from 1976 to 1983, and the "phenomenon" better known by the name of his victims: disappeared. It is not our intention to tell the events historical here and now (you can easily tell with books or the Internet.)

however summarize in two words what happened that day, a paramilitary unit, the grupos de Tareas (neither army nor police ) was authorized to detain so-called dissidents, and somewhat vague term given at the discretion (staff) of the anyone a bit 'of power. Socially gone, the hostages were taken to clandestine detention centers, most of whom were in the center of Buenos Aires (such as a school building of Argentine Navy, the EMSA, now a museum of memory) , and there they were systematically tortured. And then be thrown with state air in the open ocean. Dead or most of and sometimes still alive.
After the return to democracy, somebody paid but most have remained unpunished, thanks to two-amnesty laws promulgated by Menem (recently canceled because again declared unconstitutional by the judiciary .. just that they want to eliminate power in Italy ..)

Even today, the mothers of the disappeared, in Joined ' Association Madres de Plaza de Mayo, every Thursday from 15:30 to 16:30 in the parade square 25 de Mayo in front of the Casa Rosada (the seat of executive power) claiming justice. They do it for 30 years, with the tenacity that only women possess.

arrive a few minutes before and we have a dense atmosphere of emotions. The mothers of the association are easily recognizable because of the band wearing white ana as headgear. I am twenty, scattered around the thin marble obelisk that the central square as the arm of a compass. Some books sell pins and documentary behind a stall, others share words and memories with those who are willing to listen. Our particular interest is captured by a group of young students around, almost swallowing, a small elderly woman, no stereotype nna. Being told how they kidnapped daughter in broad daylight. The opaque glasses and quietly but firmly make his eyes moistened by the memory indelible image in our mind.

At 15.30 chimes the bell of the Cathedral, and the point of the square madres gather behind a blue banner that reads: " Contre la riqueza y la oligarquia terrateniente" (against the oligarchy of wealth and mistress) .

He takes a timid applause of encouragement from the crowd that has slowly accumulated in the square. And these women, whose youngest will have sixty years, and neither proud nor fair, but by perseverance disarming, starting with the circular gear, slow, almost rhythmic, at to rno obelisk.

participate, as many ordinary people. Popping pictures, posters, children's faces disappeared. We find that in parallel with this holocaust has developed a tour of illegal adoptions of children born to disappeared. In all, about five hundred . no possibility of detecting them.

The throat narrows a bit 'and at the end of the march, while another two minutes of applause, the emotion is widespread.

The wounds are not only still open, but bleeding profusely: the intimidation that has recently received from president of ell'associazione ( Hebe de Bonafini ) who found the front door riddled with bullets ...

But the thick drop of anguish in this sea of \u200b\u200banger is our observation that individual liberties, even in our " avant-garde" Western world, not a gift priori, but must be constantly defended. In this terrible result of the "critical" no longer know the meaning of words, and that's how we relegate such terms as "ignorance", "holocaust", "dictatorship" in the past, far away. And do not investigate more impressive its meaning.

And then I think of my country, where there is censorship. I think the gesture of Borghezio, which disinfects the trains which travel on foreigners. I think the interactive pastimes as "bounce the clandestine" and statements that it is legitimate to torture them. I think the events that occurred in the barracks of Bolzaneto. And finally I think that in my country there are those who work for you to hate social development, so the terrmine democracy change meaning, and for you to find a scapegoat on which to focus the attention and frustration. That is, the dissident / underground shift.

We conclude by recommending to everyone (as long ago have recommended to us), one of many films dealing with this subject: Garage Olimpo. is not a documentary, it's just a movie. I would say, action.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk8vpuajKGc