The government of Argentine President Javier Milei announced on Monday that he will remove confidentiality from intelligence documents regarding the military dictatorship. The announcement is made on the day the coup d’état establishing the dictatorship in the country turns 49.
According to the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, all documents linked to the Armed Forces between 1976 and 1983, dictatorship period, or related to the period in some way will be public.
“In our unwavering commitment to human rights, telling the full story is crucial,” said Adorni.
The decision obeys a 2010 decree during the presidency of Cristina Kirchner, which although it was issued 15 years ago, was never “fully implemented”, according to the spokesman.
The Milei government defends what it calls “complete memory” of what happened during the last Argentine dictatorship and equates crimes from the Armed Forces to those of guerrillas, something that is rejected by human rights organizations.
As a result, the Argentine government also announced recognition of the attack of the popular revolutionary army, a guerrilla that acted against the dictatorship, the family of Argentine captain Humberto viola as a crime against humanity against the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
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The guerrilla action took place on December 1, 1974, in Tucumán. The group blocked the car in which the captain traveled with his family and started a gunfire. The captain was with his wife and two small daughters. The captain and the youngest daughter, three, were killed.
Viola’s widow appealed to the IACHR in 2016 so that the case was considered a crime against humanity. In 2022, however, the Argentine Secretariat of Human Rights, managed by the government of Alberto Fernández, rejected the thesis.
The case was reviewed by Milei’s decision. “For Milei, the murder of Captain Viola and his family was a crime against humanity,” Adorni announced.
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In the same vein, the Argentine President also announced that he will send a bill to declare as unfannable the crimes committed by guerrillas during the dictatorship.
Several human rights organizations criticized the decision to equate the dictatorship’s crimes to that of guerrillas, at the risk of justifying repression.
“The only thing the government should ask to break is the silence pacts of the genocidas,” said activist Carlos Pisoni, from the group that brings together children of missing persons during the dictatorship.
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According to organizations, the dictatorship left about 30,000 missing. “Most of the people the government would like to judge these cases of homicides committed by guerrillas were disappeared, tortured and murdered,” said Argentine (Ear) school of Naval Mechanics Human Rights.
As in every year, human rights organizations march in Plaza de Mayo with the support of the Unions for Memory Day. With international agencies
