Human rights referents, officials and ministers of the Nation considered that the restitution of grandson 131 “values the struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo” and highlighted the collaborative work between State agencies and civil society.
The president of Grandmothers of Plaza de MayoStele of Carlotto, provided details about the recent restitution at a press conference that was held at the House for Identity in the Memory and Human Rights Spacelocated in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez.
There, he explained that Grandson number 131 is the son of the PTR-ERP militants from Mendoza, Lucía Nadin and Aldo Quevedo, who were kidnapped in 1977 and they were taken to the “Club Atlético” Clandestine Detention Center in the city of Buenos Aires.
The Minister of the Interior and son of the disappeared, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, assessed that the new restitution serves to “value the struggle of Grandmothers and Human Rights organizations for so many years.”
The right to identity constitutes you and is a path to go through, not without pain. My wish for those who are going through it is patience and strength to bank when doubts, sadness and anguish enter them, know that this ends with the happiness of finding who one is. pic.twitter.com/Q2CQQiLtgz
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“It is an example that persisting, dreaming and believing is worth it,” he added, and considered that the people who were appropriated “know who they are again, because a story and a family life are reconstructed.”
Meanwhile, the Defense Minister Jorge Taianapointed out to Télam, that the appearance of the grandson 131 “It is one more step to recover as a society from those who tried to destroy it, make it lose its memory and destroy its best children”.
Along these lines, he stressed that the announcement “after almost three years, shows that it continues to be discovered and progress is being made in the recovery of the grandchildren”
Meanwhile, the executive secretary of the National Commission for the Right to Identity (CoNaDI) and restored grandson number 57, Manuel Gonçalves Granada, confided in statements to Télam that “with news like this what we do is recharge our forces to look for the next one”.
In addition, he affirmed that this case is a sign that “we must work collaboratively, between State agencies, civil society and the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.”
