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Police students and teachers. Behind, the banners that remember the missing people of Mendoza.
Human rights training
Just as on other occasions aspiring prison inmates toured the EPM, now future police officers did so.
With attention, the young students listened to the explanations and testimonies of Natalia Brite and of Eugene Paris, former political prisoner who was held hostage in D-2. They also asked questions and showed sensitivity against the historical facts of which they took note.
On the tour they passed through the cell area and there, as a sign of respect, they took off their caps.
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Eugenio Paris and Natalia Brite explained to the students how the D-2 worked.
Juan Carlos González, teacher, said: “With IUSP students, our future police officers, we visited the Provincial Memory Space, former D-2the most important clandestine detention, torture and extermination center in Greater Mendoza.
He also noted: “There, between echoes of a painful past and silences loaded with history, one understands the inalienable importance of the rule of law and life in democracy. In this place, the center of State terrorism, before and during the last civil-military dictatorship, memory, like a persistent river, reminds us that respect for human rights is the only way“.
González also expressed: “Our commitment is clear: never more. May this historical learning and message that gives light to the future shape our protectors of justice, liberty and peace”.
In the current context in which the national government, through President Javier Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel, He has openly expressed himself in opposition to human rights organizations that vindicate the victims of the dictatorship.it is still striking that future police officers participate in a visit and tour of what was a clandestine center.
Striking and healthy because everything was developed within a framework of due respect, even though different opinions and positions may naturally exist.
Precisely due to events that occurred in D-2, the thirteenth trial against humanity in Mendoza. There are thirty defendants who served in the Mendoza Police during the times of the dictatorship. Thirteen of them already have previous convictions.
The victims are close to 350, 71 of them murdered or missing. More than a dozen of the cases correspond to boys and girls. The crimes – homicides, illegitimate deprivations of liberty, torture, serious injuries, rapes and robberies – are located in a wide temporal range that extends from April 1974 to the same month but in 1981, the page says. Against Humanity Mendoza.
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