Crimes past, crimes present

摘要

The Naval Mechanical School, built in French colonial style with tall, shuttered windows, occupies a leafy enclave in the prosperous northern residential districts of Buenos Aires. After the 1976 coup that established the dictatorship of General Jorge Videla and his successors, the school was the chief among several clandestine concentration camps where up to 30,000 people were killed, many after being kidnapped and tortured. Several hundred were guerrillas; many more were peaceful left-wing activists; a few simply had assets that the regime's killers coveted. To mark the coup's anniversary, on Match 24th this year Mr Kirchner made an emotive speech before a crowd of 10,000, He apologised to the victims of state terrorism and announced the conversion of the school to a Museum of Memory.