12/22/2023 0 Comments Witness of another world torrent![]() ![]() More document than documentary, Ulises de la Orden's three-hour compendium, El Juicio (The Trial), is composed entirely of video shot during those courtroom proceedings. The charges: kidnapping, torturing and murdering tens of thousands of their own citizens during a reign of terror that lasted from 1976 to 1983.įorty years after the fall of that dictatorship, a video record of its trial – the only example of a Latin American democracy convicting its own oppressors - is being shown to the public for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1985, after briefly granting themselves amnesty, the leaders of the military regime were convicted by the new civilian government of crimes against humanity. ![]() In the 1970s and '80s, ESMA was a clandestine detention center for a right-wing military regime brutally engaged in eliminating dissent through criminal practices that were exposed in gruesome detail in trial testimony two years after the end of the Argentine dictatorship. Standing beneath the birch and flowering jacaranda trees at what used to be ESMA (the acronym in Spanish for the Navy School of Mechanics) it's not easy to picture the horrors that took place at this sprawling urban campus in Buenos Aires. It has been converted into a "museum of memory" and is now home to human rights groups and exhibits about the dictatorship. The former ESMA (The Navy School of Mechanics) in Buenos Aires was used as a clandestine detention camp where civilians were tortured and killed. ![]()
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