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The government of Javier Milei This Sunday, he officially denied the figure of 30,000 missing during the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), after releasing a video on social media, which states that the number is “invented”.
At the memorial day48 years after the last coup d’état in the country, the Casa Rosada – seat of the Executive Branch – broadcast a short documentary in which a former guerrilla claimed to have invented the number, while he was in exile in the Netherlands, and described it as “a great deal.”
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Luis Labrañaformer guerrilla member of different paramilitary organizations, such as Montonerossaid that “disappearances were a big problem”, but the number “was created in the Netherlands”.
“We went to see the prime minister’s wife and some deputies to ask her for money for the Mothers of Plaza de Mayowho came because they wanted to create a place to claim their children,” he began to say. The Brave.
According to his version, at that time there were about 4 thousand people missing. and that the Mothers, when presenting that figure, were informed that they could not talk about genocide and asked them to come back later when they had more.
In this sense, the former guerrilla commented that while they were discussing a number was determined: “They said barbaric things and someone said 30 thousand, as if saying: ‘well, cut it, add 30 thousand’. It was me”.
This number became a social consensus after the return of democracy and was supported by different political groups and all human rights organizations in the country, including the Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
According to the story of The Bravereleased by the Government of Mileithat “it strengthens hatred and begins to obscure the true story.”
“The 30,000 number was false, I put the number in and no one can argue with me, nor does anyone come to argue with me. It was a mistake? No, At that time it was not a mistake. Was it designed as a mistake? Yes, of course, it was a big mistake. Because it was a flag of lies, of evil”, he concluded.
Within the framework of Day of Remembrance, Truth and Justice, Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel, one of the main promoters of the debate on the number of missing people, shared another video in which she calls for “compensation for the victims of terrorism”.
“Human rights are for everyone. Memory too. Truth, Justice and Reparation for victims of terrorism. Those responsible for these crimes cannot go unpunished. It wasn’t 30 thousand”, he wrote on his X account.
The publication was made this Sunday morning, when social, human rights, trade union and political organizations were preparing to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the last military coup in Argentina.
Source: Elcomercio
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