President Albert Fernandez defined as “enormous immorality and enormous indecency” the bombardment of the Armed Forces to Plaza de Mayo in 1955, evaluated that on that day “the political violence expressed by the State began” and was in favor of declaring June 16 as a “day of national mourning”.
“Denialism is something unforgivable in the times we live in; we have to keep the memory alive; anyone who has a minimum of ethics can only condemn the bombing (of Plaza de Mayo) and not show solidarity with the assassins,” said the President, in statements to Télam, at Government House.
This afternoon, at the end 67 years since the attack perpetrated by Navy and Air Force planes in the Plaza de Mayo area, union leaders, legislators from Buenos Aires and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora placed three commemorative tiles in a sector of Plaza de Mayo, in memory of the more than 300 people killed and thousands injured in that attempt to overthrow and kill President Juan Domingo Perón.
“Our Mothers, our Grandmothers, taught us that the only way to reach truth and justice is to fight, keeping memory standing and claiming truth, not revenge; June 16 is an important date, it is the date on which Some immoral people bombed the Plaza de Mayo with the purpose of ending a government and took the lives of hundreds of civilians; it is an enormous immorality, it is an enormous indecency”, reflected the head of state.
He judged that at that moment “the political violence expressed by the State began” because it was the armed forces that bombarded the Plaza.
“It’s something we have to remember so that it never happens again,” Fernandez expressed and evaluated that June 16 should be declared a “national day of mourning”such as Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo requested him.
“It is well deserved that this be the case because on that day democracy was harmed by the death of many Argentines,” the President declared about that “very dark time that we must not forget.”
“In today’s Argentina it means not forgetting, it means remembering every day the importance of democracy, remembering every day the importance of the rule of law, the importance of life; remembering that we deny institutional violence, that we don’t want it, that we despise it, remember that our armed forces have been created to protect us, not to kill us or make us disappear as in other times,” Fernández completed.
Also today, on the anniversary of the bombing, the table ‘They have not defeated us’ was developed -integrated by ATE Capital, the union of the Río de la Plata sectional Dredging and Beaconing Personnel, Buenos Aires legislators from the Frente de Todos (FdT) and Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora-, a tribute in front of the Ministry of Economy building, where the marks of the bombs are still there.
