Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Quotes
School for Tortures and Assassins
The school was one of the more notorious concentration camps where tens of thousands of Argentines were tortured and murdered. It was also known as the Argentine Auschwitz.
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Large Sign Placed in Front of the Argentine Navy Mechanics School, 19th Anniversary of the Argentine Coups which Started the Dirty War, 1995
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He was finally brought to justice after being protected by the right wing for many years. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. See related quote.
The phrase came to be used to describe conflicts within a country whereby the insurrectionists and the Government forces both used terrorist tactics involving fear, murder, torture and intimidation. The phrase was picked up exactly and translated to Spanish and English to describe, for example, the “Dirty War” in Argentina, when in 1976 a military coup signaled a reign of terror against “subversive” elements.
In the midst of the Argentine Dirty War where the right wing government was murdering and torturing their political enemies of the left, most of the Catholic Church Priests and other Church Authorities had sided with the government and morally overlooked their atrocities and crimes against humanity. Others were fearful as Bishop Enrique Angelelli had been murdered by the military death squads in 1976. Bishop Hesayne was one of the few members of the Church hierarchy who criticized church officials for their silence.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo silently marched every week asking what had happened to the children—the disappeared—who were kidnapped and murdered in the Argentine Dirty War. The President warned the crowd that their protests might attract the death squads again.
Tens of thousands of Government opponents and independent thinkers of all kinds were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Argentina’s Dirty War conducted by the military junta which Videla headed. See {41586}. After democracy was returned to Argentina, he was tried and convicted for murder and other government atrocities committed during his administration. See {41542}.
She is a leading American Arab who is a Syrian expatriate. The examples she gives in the beginning of the quotations are relatively recent atrocities where Muslims have attacked and brutally murdered other Muslims. She articulates one of the theories to explain the Islamic propensity to brutality and violence that the religion itself, when taught literally which it so often is, actually produces an inclination and glorification of brutal violence and develops a tolerance and acceptance of Islamic violence.
The School of the Americas has been run by the United States Army and provides training for Latin American Military Officers in Counter-Insurgency Training. The graduates of the school have included some of the worst Latin American killers and torturers (See {41061} for example) who rose to positions of power in their lands. It has also included many leaders who did not ever resort to war crimes and atrocities and also became leaders of their countries. It has been an institution of great controversy since it was discovered that the school at one point taught methods of interrogating insurgents that were tantamount to torture. Defenders of the school claim that but for the school, the military atrocities would have been worse and that it contributed to more human and democratic governments in the Americas.
His comment was particularly critical since he had been an early supporter of the military takeover of the government. See {595250}.
See {41988} for an example of the atrocities.
The admiral, who was the intellectual leader of the junta during the “Dirty War,” confessed to the facts but claimed that the drastic steps were appropriate and necessary. Further, that there was no “guilt” involved in an act of executive necessity. The court did not agree and he was convicted, but was later pardoned along with the other war criminals by President Carlos Menem.
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This was three weeks after the coup that began the Dirty War that ended with tens of thousands of Argentines tortured and murdered.
A woman whose children were kidnapped and tortured by Argentine government officials during the Dirty War appealed for assistance to the Papal Nuncio. Amnesty International had validated the facts of the case.
Abu Ghraib was the prison in Iraq where prisoners were brutalized and treated illegally and immorally. Seymour Hirsh was the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the story. Levy contrasted that where the Algerian War was full of such atrocities but French intellectuals and press would not publicize it. It didn’t stop for the whole war.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is an Argentine human rights association formed in response to the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla, with the goal of finding the desaparecidos, initially, and then determine the culprits of crimes against humanity to promote their trial and sentencing.
