By Alfredo Montenegro. Complicity in judicial offices, military, ecclesiastical and formal democracy did not stop families now star in the struggle for the punishment of asesinos.Ya do not give orders or cry hard with pathetic gestures. They are cowards and gendarmes protected by glass, while quietly hide for safety. Without the slightest dignity served the interests and policies of the ruling class.
must now listen and wait for the outcome of the trial. Even the justice system protects them and are still free, but a strong social statement of conviction for crimes against humanity committed in the Service Information (SI) of police in Rosario during the civil-military dictatorship.
"We always hope that some of these beasts say what they had done. How many mothers died without knowing where their children? How many grandmothers are dying without knowing where your grandchildren? And those who have the answers, keep quiet," remarked Francisco Oyarzábal.
The "Basque" and her sister Mary Agnes said last Wednesday in the trial over the disappearance of his brother Jose Antonio, the cause Díaz Bessone, in Federal Court 2 (TOF2) of Rosario.
In the courtroom of Orono to 900 memory and commitment rescued the events that began that October 12, 1976, when he was kidnapped José Antonio. The story, beyond the data and information, was a testimony of profound value because the brothers Oyarzabal, more than mere witnesses have been involved in the struggle with other Argentines, with a huge pain but also with the conviction to fight and stand in solidarity and collective, from a committed membership.
For years, trials, inquiries and tours of offices, the families of the victims were only lies and silence. Maria Cristina Marquez Cristina Costanzo, Analía Murgiondo, Sergio Abdo Khalil, Eduardo Felipe Laus Daniel Oscar Barjacoba, and José Antonio Oyarzabal, led to the detention illegal and clandestine "El Pozo", were killed at dawn on October 17, 1976, near Los Surgentes, Córdoba. The youths had been transferred from the Service Information (SI) of police in Rosario. But those data were missing for years, what had happened?, Where? and doubts about the fate of their bodies moved to the families.
not until December 82 could verify the fact. Terrorism manipulated the truth to stop any response or investigation. To defeat terror, as he had warned Rodolfo Walsh, had to "do information circular, "and that's what they do for many years the families of the victims of state terrorism and the militants who accompany them.
About Jose Antonio, his sister Mary Agnes explained:" He was born on February 20, 1954 , 76 aged 22, was a law student at UNR and activist in the JUP. The Basque adds: "In 76 left home Urquiza street and went to live on a pension in Spain 961. We saw continued , came home for lunch and brought my mother washed clothes. the surgeon was his nickname in school, rugby club Elves and in the political arena, to the point that for many, I was Cirujita.
After the kidnapping, "we started thinking about what could have happened and we started the investigations, he had a friend Eduardo Laus, whose mother phoned us and we realized we were missing them. We had multiple meetings with the family of Laus, "he said in a steady voice and calm Agnes.
also told the meeting that a family friend and member of the judiciary had with the commissioner Corrales on 18 October 1976. Although the youths had been killed the day before, he said Oyarzabal was wounded, arrested and available to the Army Headquarters. Then, the commander of the Army Andrés Ferrero "the invited "not to seek more data. So Feced Augustine, former senior commander of the Gendarmerie was supervisor of the police Rosario (April 1976 to May 1978). While
began investigations also showed the fear and sleepless nights. "Inés highlights some memories:" The phone rang at night, every time. We attended, we cut, and as we saw, in lying to call us again. We could not cut the line because I always expected news, "he says. Also highlighted" the lies that got permanently, while my parents wandered from side to side and mistreated.
"On 15 and 16 November and the December 30, 1976 we reported in the command of 2nd Army Corps," said Agnes. He added that his mother and aunt also raised the issue to the Ministry of Interior and talk to the priest Garcia (Hector), secretary of the then Archbishop William Bolatti, "who encouraged us to hope that with the arrival of the holidays we would have some news, "says Agnes. "We are official roads turn to the church to the military and justice, but habeas corpus were answered negatively and 79 make the complaint to the OAS," he adds.
events were beginning to sort. But until December 82 accesses the Basque part of the truth: after being arrested on October 12, 1976, was born with six other young people to the Headquarters of Rosario, and then transferred live on the side of a rural road in Los springs, where they were killed on 17 October. Later, take their bodies to the hospital Cordoba San Roque and finally to a mass grave in San Vicente cemetery.
A conditional democracy "My mother looked up he learned of the death of his son, in pain and silence passed the baton and start working on Families of the Disappeared and the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. The membership in these organizations was very important, very healthy, was also a place of containment, "said the Basque while apologizing to the court for a permanent hoarseness. He admitted that since he learned "that would witness today, scratchy throat me, sorry."
Between 82 and 83 goes to Mar del Plata and other cities in the province of Buenos Aires, for more information. With the restoration of democracy and denunciations Conadep appear in provincial court. But I also happen one of the hardest moments for Oyarzabal.
Inés says: "On December 83, in the newspaper La Capital are said to have identified some of the corpses, including that of Edward Laus. It was near assume Alfonsin and traveled to Cordoba with my brother and attorney Delia Rodríguez Araya, go to court and tell us in a pit of San Vicente had about 3000 people buried, but they asked us to wait for the democratic government. "
Between 3 and 4 March 1984 opened the mass grave in the cemetery Cordoba "in a bestial way, with a shovel who destroyed tracks and bones. We spent two days watching femurs and skulls, we counted 50 skulls. How can we forget when they're one with a blindfold on. Then took the remains to a forensic medical office where a team analyzed them. We saved radiographs taken by the dentist family. Only the skull was recognized Cristina Costanzo, "says Agnes. With no progress in identifying the remains, by court order are removed and stored for future analysis in the cemetery.
In 1984, says the Basque, "not to understand the extent to which democracy was hacked. Is stolen to provincial courts and thereby lost documentation. Uncompromising active in the Party, and from there had warned the government about the risks facing these documents. "
Among the steps that had to endure, the Basque remember when the complaints, 84, passed from the provincial courts to the military. "I plays testify before a military judge, and I remember that instead of finding information sought to intimidate. " That tells the most recurrent question that made him: 'Are you sure about this? ". Also satisfied in February 86 to the federal courts. "
Another tough time was to join the journalist Carlos del Frade to Los Surgentes, where he met with the doctor and the photographer saw the bodies and the employee who took fingerprints of the seven bodies. "In 2003 the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team was to retrieve the bodies for identification, states that the pit will reopen in the cemetery for analysis with new technology and DNA testing. We wanted to recover something, you could have dug the earth with his teeth, "said the Basque.
The illusion crashed into another disappointment, another alleged mockery made in democratic times, "These bones should be guarded, after two days of closing the first test on February 85 were burned and thrown into the common ossuary. We had left blood samples for identification. But I suspected we were told about the burning of the remains, we made a note and we confirmed the burning in February 85. It was a horror, terrible, very hard. We needed to appear but is a bone, denied us the opportunity to identify even a little, was like the second disappearance of my brother and from there went into a slump and break morale, "he admits.
In the 90's, the presentations made by the Basque laws unconstitutional due obedience and endpoint. But he also endured a bailiff visit him at home because he had to repossess something because an appeal had been rejected generating costs. "He said the only thing of value he had was an old bookcase. I was very violent, because my brother was and I wanted to take a library. "
At this point, the story came to mind, and Oyarzabal, as many militants and plaintiffs are not end the story because justice delayed is claimed. The Basque admits his dream of finding the remains of his brother and left to the cemetery with his parents. But he also argues that "political change in the country, dropping a law of impunity regains the ability to prosecute." Before, and his sister had said: "On behalf of my mother, who traveled these boulevards alone looking for my brother, I ask on behalf of justice." Of the seven mothers of children from Los Surgentes live only Angela Costanzo, present at the meeting and accompanied the brothers friend of her son.
Those kids joined their relatives, who did an act at 30 years of the event and also participated in the act by school children studying Los Surgentes, rescued and investigated the case.
When court officials were finally close the statement, the Basque asked to say "something more" - then, his voice quieter and no longer hawking downloaded: "For lawyers there are crimes, no murders, unlawful deprivation of liberty, torture, and for the families there is pain and what I always wonder is how many sorrows have to go through this desk for justice. "
Applause erupted in the room, everyone was standing. But the cowardly remained in their seats and quietly in their chairs and crushed by the weight of truth and a conviction can not wait.
are tried in courts Ramón Díaz Bessone (ex CdTe. Del II EC), José Rubén Lo Fiego (Chief Officer of Police in Santa Fe), Mario Alfredo Marcote (Police Officer Santa Fe), Rito Ramón Vergara (Police officer of Santa Fe), Juan Carlos Scortecchini (main curator of the Santa Fe Police) and Ricardo Chomicky (civil) for the crime of unlawful deprivation of liberty and torture to 93 victims, 17 of whom were killed . In declared the year about 200 witnesses.
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