The Argentine Government eliminated the unit integrated into the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi) destined to investigate the appropriation of children during the last dictatorship in the South American country (1976-1983) for, according to the decree published this Wednesday, violating the separation of powers.
Through decree 727/2024, published in the Official Gazette with the signature of the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the Executive repealed decree 715 of June 9, 2004.
Said text had created the Special Unit to investigate “the disappearance of children as a consequence of the actions of state terrorism” within the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi) and was under the umbrella of the Secretary of Human Rights, a position that Judge Alberto Baños has held office since December 2023.
Among the grounds for the decision, the Executive considered that the aforementioned Special Unit enjoyed “investigative powers, on its own initiative for the individualization of those responsible for possible criminal acts” with access and powers that are contrary to the Argentine Constitution.
According to the human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, nearly 500 babies were stolen by the dictatorship from their parents, mostly opponents of the regime, and in many cases from mothers who gave birth in clandestine detention and torture centers and They were disappeared forever, murdered or thrown alive, drugged, into the sea.
Last May, the group expressed its “concern about the offensive (by the Argentine Government) against the work of the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi)”, founded in 1992 under the Presidency of Carlos Menem (1989-1999). .
Subsequently, there were demonstrations against the layoffs and adjustments that the Government of Javier Milei has taken against the areas dedicated to memory spaces and state offices for human rights.
Argentina became an international example in the work for human rights through the creation of groups such as Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who searched for their children and grandchildren who disappeared during the last dictatorship.
Furthermore, the National Commission for the Disappearance of Persons, established by the first president since the return of democracy, Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989), and the celebration of the Trial of the Juntas, just two years after the conclusion of the regime of In fact, they were milestones at an international level.
The Milei Executive denies the figure agreed upon by human rights organizations of 30.000 missing persons and only recognizes 8.751.
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2024-08-15 19:37:23
