-24 MARCH 1976-2011 A MURDER 35 YEARS OF BERNE Alberta for a gang ARMY
La Argentina has the sad privilege of have introduced the sociological and political categories disappeared. The civilian-military dictatorship executed a systematic plan of extermination of human beings, of which only had known they disappeared. It belongs to the need for memory has not expired, has no history, not ever.
The rememorizacion of these archetypes is not only a return to the past, without memory, without remembering the subject does not exist. So memory is just as important, if not exercised disappear, which is why the vanquished have no history.
And that is why we are not defeated, Bernardo Alberte, my father along with thousands of partners were not defeated, were killed by anti-national forces. Albert died for being driven and active participation of a revolution killed him because he understood the reality and try to modify it. Today these archetypes appear as symbols present to be imitated.
Bernardo Alberte, was a militant revolutionary who managed to combine political theory with the dignity of revolutionary practice, no doubt to sustain his own life even though she loved so.
Every time you kill a militant is a message that is silenced, when these murders are the first in a time when criminal organizations elect their first victim, seek in it the meaning symbolic what they want to destroy. So no surprise that then-Mayor Bernardo Alberte was the first victim of the military process.
At 35 years after his assassination, we, members of the popular surrender our honor, not in a restrictive sense, partisan, but in a broad sense encompassing. That is not Alberte honors because he was a Peronist, if Alberte honors because being fought by military coups and military dictatorships and Alberte honors as being opposed participationism Peronist and opposed to the domestication of Peronism and opposed economic liberalism in the fibula, which was acting on living in Alberta, under the government of Isabel Martínez and López Rega. Because being opposed Peronist Triple A. is pays tribute to a man of integrity who did not hesitate to risk the supreme good of life, without giving up, being consistent with what we thought, said and loved.
Today hopefully see that we are one of the few companies that has conducted an intense policy judgments to those responsible for crimes against humanity, reinforcing the idea that the State should be the guarantor of fundamental rights of its citizens and not the primary violator.
Since 2003 the government by the partner Nestor Kirchner, had the political will to complete with the laws and symbols of the impunity of state terrorism, example was the repeal of the laws of impunity and pardon to the genocidal dictatorship, that made possible the resumption of the trials that have been and are being made. Another event that we should value, and no doubt mean a symbol, is having hook pictures of genocide Bignone Videla and galleries Military College, where he studied for future officers of the Armed Forces, as well as to convert the ESMA in a memory center, events that crystallized the struggle they launched the Mothers, grandmothers, children and all other human rights organizations, socially and politically committed to fighting for truth and justice.
However we still have a long way to go.
In the case of the murder of Bernardo Alberte, at the end of 2003, his family, ask the Federal Court No. 3 to by Dr. Daniel Rafecas retrial began in the month of April 1976 investigating the murder, which had been given timely myriad details of the military operation, as well as the names of two retired generals, who occupied important positions in Intelligence Division and Operations Staff of the Army, when the coup of March 24, 1976, and participated in the operation, one as chief General gang today Oscar ® General ® Guerrero and Jorge O 'Higgins was found that some of the letters of Peron Alberte that was stolen from home Alberta for the soldiers who consummated his murder.
Bernardo Alberte (h).
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(On the morning of March 24, l976 was killed by combined army and police the Lieutenant Colonel. (RE) Bernardo Alberte, hours before he had finished writing this letter denouncing the illegal repression and the complicity of the armed forces)
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Buenos Aires , 24 marzo1976.
To Mr. Lieutenant General
D. Jorge Rafael Videla
Army Commander General
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; ; ; I am writing to report the following effects:
1 .- The day 20-III- 76, 20 hours, gunmen kidnap attempt on my street offices Rivadavia 764, 1, with the apparent purpose of murder. He had just retired from the place chosen by the armed group a few minutes earlier, which allowed me to observe the operation from the street, as well as the large deployment of assets and personnel used .-
2 .- The observation of these facts I can assure you that these were security forces, who after arresting three people who were in those offices, handcuffed , blindfolded and loaded into vehicles, moved quickly across the street to the west Rivadavia, unable to follow them, because they can not have a car at that time. The shift came with the usual touch of siren of the police vehicles .-
3 .- The day before in an operation connected with the already described was kidnapped and then murdered the young Peronist Maximo Augusto Altieri .-
4 .- In the said office policy development activities related to the Peronist movement, forming part of the current Peronist "July 26" whose ideology comes from the documentation attached .-
5 .- This formal written complaint on this occasion I present after exhausted all means to find out the whereabouts of the young Altieri, live, what I got, but died Saturday 20, after unsuccessful efforts made at the General Command, in the Ministry of Interior and through personal connections with comrades related information services .-
6 .- The personal search conducted with his father, was provided by fellow Peronist the Municipality of Avellaneda and police personnel of the Police 1 ª. of that city, which allowed me to find it riddled with bullets in the Avellaneda cemetery morgue, unidentified, in an advanced state of decomposition, with the open belly and the guts to air. The body was a simple NN, four days after being found by police in Tristan Suarez, in its jurisdiction, having failed in his usual effective method of identification without cause.
7 .- It is very likely that if there was no means of finding the decision and described the cooperation of the staff had no opportunity for their families to exercise the right of Christian burial .-
These are the facts that the commander informed the General, but as information concise and objective description, not very important within the whole context of violence that characterized the political situation in Argentina, if not accompanied by an appreciation that I feel the right and the obligation to point out, in my capacity as head of the armed forces retired, whose career within the institution the commander General knows, for my political activity within the Peronist movement, which occupies the most senior in the country for part of General Peron's exile and political activism continued to make majority within the movement, which gives me at least, the experience that many need to access a reality that eludes them and that exceeds what is serious when it happens to those who have the responsibility to assume, understanding and lead to success .-
In my views the commander find excesses if not clarify that I am able to write to you, not with my simple attributes of a retired officer of the armed forces, I subordinate and constrain me, and therefore my arguments would make a formal, simple and insufficient appreciation that would be worthless .-
While express to you the respect I deserve some hierarchies, I can assure you that Life has taught me to overcome them all, when the need to express the thought is concerned. That was my rule, even from a young officer, against the scale unmatched General General Juan D. Peron, against politicians and activists, compared to simple facts and the most serious .-
This life taught me that travels as a young and as old as poor as rich, as a worker and as an employer, such as military and civilian, as head and as subordinate as subversive and political, as free and as prisoner, as if pursued as a fugitive in exile, as Peronist .-
undoubtedly moving towards a confrontation to which we want to gradually bring false choices and handling false alarm values \u200b\u200band see the light and to the irresponsibility of certain people and sectors that have power, power transition, encourage engagement facts or words .-
And pointing to this concept to our comrades in the armed forces in disturbed to hear eulogies, for example, where before his death seemed who want to overcome with words assume positions to be silent and positive events. I have also the experience of eulogies. Talk in homage to our workers and militants dead and also to comrades shot by other comrades, and I understand now that not enough words or speeches, or prayers for the dead or the homilies of our holy pastors of the Church to conceal the causes of the violence that is between us for a long time .-
recognize that using a dead man, his death, to relieve his "anger" about the injustice of his death, is entitled to do so. But if we were in that bid to exalt our dead,
Who has more right?
- one who had the opportunity to assist and at least touch still warm and bleeding, or see just "groomed" by the funeral home, prepared for the tribute and to go "clean" to glory.
- or one who has to pick up dirt from a ditch or a pasture, shot wildly, helpless and bound, tortured and blindfolded their eyes, a high degree of decomposition, as they say autopsies or as we say, rotten and ready to be worm food? .-
This is the fate of many of our members and our workers. Can a Colonel or a General, to take some time, with his speech, a tragedy like this?. Saving you the answer: do not. I no longer do more. No Words are not enough to prevent it .-
" What's happening to the Argentinians? when we accept classify the dead in "desirable" or "undesirable" when we accustomed and to tolerate and we promote the excesses of power, when we give to debate and agree that the holders of that power may be considered in any case its excesses can legally framed figures as "excess defense" or other inventions, when orally deny Generals of the Nation democracy, arguing that it could lead to a "government atheist, materialist, totalitarian"? .-
With these concepts not intend to prosecute the military, because we are judges and if we were we would not have the power to enforce justice. Only, allowing reflections to understand the need for self-criticism, which is not observed in the severity of military uprisings that repeated listening is usual .-
We not consider the FFA, A. as an institution possessed of immutable values, but as a human institution which acts for good or ill, according to the men who run them circumstantially. Are neither better nor worse than the men who compose it, and therefore there is no historical continuity equal to all the military over time with the same mark of excellence, selflessness and patriotism, nor the merit of a time reaching the stars of another, unless the revalidate its own conduct. And the same with respect to infamous conduct. The merits of San Martin manages to Quaranta, nor slanders Suárez Fernández Belgrano, Dorrego or Guemes. We admire the Almte Browm and deny the same time since Benigno Rojas Varela. We feel indebted and heirs of many army guys who shed their blood on American soil and Homeland and therefore not lessen our view about the officers accomplices, executors and pampering of humiliation and torture .-
No doubt this is an antagonistic approach which underpins many soldiers who have a strange conception of his relationship to the history and glory. But clearly, if it so crudely so stressed, is to prevent indiscriminate prejudices continue to cultivate patriotism history then revealed as false.
is that Argentines have an unpleasant experience in this century. When the argument always put forward and now repeated the need to defend "a lifestyle, our way of life, starred as a repressor Army history of the" Patagonia tragic "and the workers did like martyrs when from naval aircraft with crew also political bombing Village Square May, when rifle the National Penitentiary, in José León Suárez and Campo de Mayo, when gun in Trelew, when soldiers took part in the desecration of the corpse of Evita, where the Army in a major operation intended to prevent the reunion of the Village with their leader, when representatives of the three services attending calls of the most representative of the leading Companies and most rancid of landowners and farmers, to consider the national economic situation and make criticisms of the government, without taking on their own, etc., worry takes hold of the popular sectors, especially when it is announced that the Army will speak on "subversion in factories", work of our workers and no mention of it in business, instead of plundering the country and the national heritage .-
The situation is serious and dramatic, not only for workers but also for their own armed forces, driven to advance in a field, wherein the inclined plane will be taken to replace the police of manufacturing environments, yet private, and to be custodians of the interests of a party, just the least likely to represent the general interest .-
All these considerations lead the first 7 points of this note, which describes a particular situation .-
If we add armed gangs move through the Capital of the Republic and population centers, with no response from the forces of order and without the authorities (in this case the Head of Federal Police ) take knowledge, the problem is more serious, not because they assume that the General Chief of the police would not stop, but he can not: the facts and get over things .-
If further investigations into the whereabouts of the young Altieri and others made, we find that its case is not unique to the morgue daily renew their deposits riddled bodies and security agencies not surprised in any way, but accept it as normal and common, we understand that pessimism about the real and serious responsibility and mission of law enforcement has seized of them, the best, as there are others in which they can assume complicit in these massacres .-
If we hear that the police officers Young Altieri has been "executed", check to arrive at the respect for the concept of justice, for which services they should be .-
All these events have occurred in the field with the High Command that is related, by the function has taken and that is why I put it on their knowledge .-
Only as corollary of all this corresponds to one final thought. Faced with the already established concept of the inability of the armed forces for the exercise of political power in three unfortunate experience opportunities so far this century is already beginning to spread in public opinion the same concept, but seems more specific functions of these forces: the maintenance of order and security of people, in whose service officers have already been put in operation .-
Finally I know Mr. Commander General similar complaints about the fact that the results have been submitted to political institutions, the Church , entrepreneurs, workers and professionals, where each one is made to know our thoughts on the responsibilities of each .-
greet the commander General
Bernardo Alberto
; ; Lieutenant Colonel. (RE)
