Larrabure, the crime that was not (part II) Larrabure
Case NOTICE OF A MURDER THAT WAS NOT (Part II)
Carlos del Frade.
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Larrabure Argentino del Valle was not tortured or ill-fed and there is no confirmation about a murder. That is apparent from the detailed reconstruction militants were able to close the People's Revolutionary Army in the province of Buenos Aires, thirty-three years after the discovery of the body of the then most of the Argentine Army. According to these testimonies, reports of several autopsies on the body of the officer speak of good health, food and even a weight of more than one hundred kilograms. In those papers identified by the survivors of the years seventies, there are also key thing: there was no electricity passing through the body of Larrabure. The publication was The Link had an impact among human rights organizations, political activism and comprehensive development in the radius of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Almost no major media in the city of Rosario. For the last companion of Gorriaran Merlo, Liliana Scheiner, "these studies confirm the data that was Henry and he was taken before his death, to attempt a contact with the son of Larrabure, which we could not make." It is necessary that the federal courts will allow free access to the case file because if corroborates in these notes, is a duty recognize the lie to which he was subjected the people of Argentina for nearly four decades. A falsehood that served to justify, among other things, the worst dictatorship in history. The following is a summary of the vision of the newspaper "The Nation" that takes the version imposed by the Argentine Army in 1975 and, subsequently, the writings of the aforementioned Enrique Gorriaran Merlo surrounding the case.
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The main editorial of the newspaper La Nación, 17 June 2007, was titled: "Larrabure: crime against humanity." The company holds founded by the father of the official history of Argentina, Bartolomé Mitre, which "is for any reason, the national government chose to reopen lawsuits for violations of human rights to which the endpoint laws and due obedience to them had made term. Accordingly, they declared such laws unconstitutional and void, with the support of the highest court in the country, while they were declared the inalienable human rights crimes committed in state support. "He added that" this alternative is certainly debatable, but valid. However, its adoption should be accompanied by a consistency that so far no seen. What is claimed in particular that are deemed criminal acts of guerrilla groups with the same severity with which it has begun to prosecute those responsible for the so-called state terrorism. In other words, to be sure to see our tragic history with one eye. " The newspaper remarked that "the petition to be declared as a crime against humanity, the murder of his father, Arturo Larrabure has emphasized that judges face a very difficult decision, as heroic as essential for fair and just settlement of the past. Should opt for the convenience or values, justice or politics, international jurisprudence and the sophism designed for amnesty for the guerrillas. "And the time to sum up the fact, "The Nation" chose to repeat the statement of the Argentine Army in 1975, saying that "Colonel Larrabure Argentino del Valle was kidnapped by the Popular Revolutionary Army (ERP) on August 11, 1974, during the government constitutional Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, being hanged by his captors after a subhuman captivity of 372 days, during which he was repeatedly tortured with electric current passages and causing him to lose 47 kilos ", a version that was widely broadcast by the Armed Forces . The paper, finally, asked to cancel the condemnation of state terrorism in 1985 and reinstall the false theory of two evils. "In subsequent editorial, the nation has held that crimes against humanity are not only those committed with the support of the state apparatus, but also those carried out by terrorist organizations. A crime is a crime, wherever it come from being evident falsity of the premise, which puts the state component above the sacred value of life. "He concluded by saying that" truth is that there can be no peace without justice and truth. But that peace will not be possible if there is no Justice to act without discrimination and with a broad conception of crimes against humanity, as stipulated in international criminal law. "
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The official story.
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General Command of the Army was the builder of the official story about the alleged crime of the greatest Argentine Larrabure Valley. "In the fronto-parietal, middle, shows a rectangular-shaped bruise measuring four by two inches, similar to the periphery of cotillo a hammer, presumably. Leathery plates of four inches, approximately, in both inner surfaces of the knee, produced in life, strong compression. In the middle third of the right leg, deep groove around the anatomical contour, likely product of a ligature compression in life. In the neck, strangulation deep groove bottom parchment, slightly oblique horizontal travel, covering the entire perimeter, possibly produced by twisting from behind, because there are no signs of cyanosis in his lower extremities own if you have been suspended, "said one escrito.Agregaba that" in the genital organs, congestive inflammatory large area, probably by long passages of power. There are scarified area in the upper chest, posterior, probably produced by a prolonged stay in life, ulna-dorsal position. On the face, right side of the face, great congestion zone, which covers the forehead on that side, right maseteriana region, with major oil spill in the right eye conjunctiva, presumably caused by the action of shock or violent collision with hard objects. The body shows signs of severe dehydration in life for lack of sufficient fluids and electrolytes, ratified by a reduction in weight over 40 kilos of weight on the occasion of the kidnapping, according to chip it. "He concluded by saying that" the Argentine Army today received a new martyr, with firm resolve and commitment to continue the struggle against subversion to its total extinction, to achieve a final peace so longed for and deserved by the family from Argentina. " Moved to Buenos Aires, the remains of Larrabure were veiled in Patricios Infantry Regiment I, and his funeral was held at the Military Cemetery in the early hours of August 25, in Chacarita Cemetery.
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Gorriaran Merlo memories. "
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... In addition to the aforesaid errors and beaten, baseless accusations: that of having been involved in inhumane atrocities. The accusation most widespread, most known, was the largest case of Larrabure, Army officer who had been captured by peers in making Villa Maria, who was arrested in Córdoba and, as we reported killed himself. "Actually , suffered Larrabure a disturbing psychological condition, to the point that we had recommended to colleagues who were watching him not be left alone at any time, precisely at preventing something to happen and what eventually happened. "Due to his condition were analyzed, and was what probably would be decided" to release. But before he committed suicide. When this happened we took a statement and, of course, give Larrabure body was returned to his family and buried. "Two days later, the Army issued a statement saying that Larrabure had been tortured, had cigarette burns, allotting barbaric practice that made them, and weighed ninety-five kilos. Of course, nothing was certain, if it was thin, it is true that weighed forty-five kilos, and is completely false that he was tortured. Indeed, one of the causes of the emergence of armed resistance was the fight against torture and other abuse, and always had perfectly clear that we could not respond with methods other than what was the ex-fighter. "In addition, the prosecution also is consistent with all ERP path for those who had stopped." He jealously controlled the treatment of prisoners. We knew that already if it was bad that they were isolated, separated from their families, but we do not we added pain to pain, so to speak. On the contrary, we tried to decrease within the possibilities of the moment ", wrote Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, in his book" Memories ... From the seventies to the table ", published by" Planet "in 2003.
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