Tobar, Hector,

Argentina Pulls Facade Off Ugly Past. Hector Tobar. - Los Angeles Times, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 47, Human Relations, 1522-3248; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Argentina Pulls Facade Off Ugly Past, March 6, 2004; pp. A5.

"For more than 20 years, the imposing buildings on this capital's Liberator Avenue have stood as a conspicuous monument to denial. As many as 5,000 people were killed inside the notorious Navy Mechanics School, used as a concentration camp by Argentina's military junta....Yet since the end of the 'dirty war' that right-wing death squads and the junta waged against 'subversives' in the 1970s and '80s, naval officers have continued to work inside the fenced campus as if nothing happened there." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reveals how plans to turn "a former prison camp into a memorial is one of President Kirchner's steps toward reconciling with the legacy of the 'dirty war.'"

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Human rights
Human rights--Argentina
Memorials
Prisons
Reconciliation
Victims of crimes


Argentina--History--Dirty War (1976-1983)
Argentina--Politics and government

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