The following article was recently in our Boletín Voluntariado (a Type "Newsletter" for the volunteers of the IERP issued). Arturo Blatezky is pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Rio de la Plata and also works for the human rights organization MEDH with which cooperates closely IERP. I met Arturo during our introductory seminar in ISEDET and experienced it as very impressive, authentic man who has a lot of weird experience in the field of human rights work. Arturo
now as I said last Boletín a report on "uncertainty in Argentina," written, which I think is very good and clear, and therefore denied him you do not want to.
preliminary one should be aware that the social Situation here is rather procedural in Argentina. On the one hand, the large gap between rich and dominated the realm of human life, on the other hand, the huge problem of corruption. People here (especially the younger generations) have simply zero confidence in police and judiciary, as both instances not fight against the existing wrong, but on the contrary, even in many cases, are the selfsame source. The cases in which Arturo reported in his article, the best example of the situation is here in Argentina. I had the oral reading are open, just because I know that things are really happening recently Sun
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A specter is haunting IN ARGENTINA - THE GHOST OF UNCERTAINTY ...
Macri - De Narvaez & Co.: "The non-political entrepreneur-politicians"
[...] ¿What is the "creation of security for the decent citizens" by Mayor Macri in the city of Buenos Aires? The best example is undoubtedly the creation of UCEP Brigade, the "unit for the control of the general public."
consists Specifically, this measure is that a-secret group were recruited from civilian city employees, and at night by the poorer and hidden areas of the city of Buenos Aires patrols in private vehicles by beggars and homeless, in their hundreds under the bridges of highways, canopies o . etc. to spend the night trying to sell means more or less clear, mild or severe violence. These actions of the UCEP Brigade went so far that even the Chief Commissioner in charge of the city state police distanced himself from them and denied anything to do with it too. But the fact remains that the decree is Macri and UCEP extended the freedom of action even explicitly. Her official office and action is based [...] in the center of Buenos Aires and their actions often with trucks of private garbage supply of the city accompanied and supported. As well as from private cars to travel in which several large, athletic men who are all distinguished by black uniforms.
accompany us and show these violent attacks by government-hired thugs illegal for some time together with the Catholic community on the Clear Tian Constitución, the main terminal station of the trains that enter from Patagonia and the south.
A good friend, Pastor Jorge Alonso has stated in court that:
"It was about at 12 clock at night when I heard from the street-from under the highway her screams. It was a very well known to me who, since some time next to the wall of our congregation stayed and sometimes comes to food, mate tea, sugar etc. to demand. I looked out the window and saw about 18 to 20 young men, all in black uniform, tried to persuade the man. Then they climbed into their cars and drove away. The next day the man came to me and told me they had threatened him, he should make it that there wegkäme. The (66th year) man was very frightened, and said only assume that they had threatened him, next time they would wegprügeln him.
It is exactly as it says our Cardinal Bergoglio time again, people are unnecessary for the government of this city, you can treat them as disposable garbage. [...]
The real victims of the "uncertainty of the capitalist society"
Carlitos - have 14 years
few things in my life so moved as the funeral of the 14 year-old Carlitos.
Carlitos Familia lived with his as the other 45 to 50 thousand people in the slum of Villa Itatí "outermost in poverty. He gathered with his sister and his parents, paper, cardboard, bottles and other recyclable what is still in the trash. At the same time he visited the nearby night school.
A life like that of other boys his age in "Villa Itatí. His death was a death like many other everyday death in "Villa Itatí" and the other slums of the poor belt around Buenos Aires.
On a hot autumn day in April Carlitos played barefoot and clad only in shorts Soccer in the open space between the two tracks of the highway, "Villa Itatí" from Villa Azul separated.
were at half-time a spectator Carlitos to buy money to the players in the nearby kiosk for a Coke. When Carlitos
front of the kiosk was a car stopped suddenly, a man got out and shot him without saying a word at close two bullets in the back of the head.
As the audience of the game came running the short track was Carlitos already dead, the man posed as cop to identify out of service and excused himself by saying that "he meant the boys had seen during a robbery, but he could be wrong recently because the look're all equal ... "
As the horrified and angry neighbors and spectators began to pursue the man and his car tried to overthrow, the police were immediately on the spot, since the crater, the "Villa Itatí" is night and day is surrounded by police cars. The police chased the man apart with violence.
When after some time a car arrived the responsible Commissioner and began to investigate the deaths, noted the family and neighbors, was brought out as among the fatalities, a gun that Carlitos never half naked, as he was, might have had with him . It was once again among us everyday normal way to blame the victim in order to relieve the offender.
The police officer was fired the next day without further prosecuted by the Justice be.
me for the funeral of Carlitos was not only because of the unspeakable and unpunished murder unique: Because his family lives in a small wooden hut in the impossible takes just a small coffin Course (Carlitos had grown small for his age), found his mortuary and funeral service at the edge of the highway instead, so that you can constantly rest by long distance buses, trucks and cars to us. The horse of about 50 carts that stood with their respective paper collectors families provided not just for silence and contemplation: It would be also a suggestion was from these people, in view of the equally horrible and cynical, and extremely provocative murder of a little boy who was one of them and they looked likely to grow up, something like silence and contemplation.
The train to the cemetery was for me an unforgettable experience: I was sitting with relatives in one of at least 50, such as reed boats in the middle of big city traffic uncertain swaying and bumpy cart with her little horse, in robe, the huge buses and trucks, such as ocean liners paying attention, the zoomed past us at the world from a different perspective, the very bottom, from all of the little ones all the way out from the uncertainty of those you can shoot with impunity as both jostle and fall over.
from the funeral itself, I remember just the sight of the well over 50 carriages and horses, all of which drove into the cemetery and the grave so close that they could see and hear something and the crowd. And almost every car hand-painted posters, which were certainly the real and decisive response and preaching. The right photo shows one of these posters with the equally legitimate to speechlessness as desperate and compelling cry: "STOP THE KILLING OF THE INNOCENT"
Diego-16 years, Elias 15 years, Miguel-17 J., J. Manuel-17
It is easy to believe reports but not nearly what key in on the night of 20 October 2004 and is the most important police station in the city of Quilmes happen.
17 minors, some waiting for months to be-the fact transferred from the juvenile justice into a home for withdrawal drug addicts. The procedure is also as easy as incredible: Since this is all about low minor parties whose family can not pay the rehab must require that the minors themselves to ask the judge and accuse themselves as law-breakers, since they can be only as admitted at government expense. Since drug use but a criminal act, they were immediately detained as delinquents, and since the two 4-bed cells were overcrowded, were in the Night of horror in a cell 10 and in the other 7 children cooped up.
But that was nothing compared to what was to happen had
the afternoon on one of the boys, the 16 year-old Diego asked to be allowed to visit his parents in despair: he had received a letter from those in the stand, his little brother was seriously ill. Inexplicably, someone had in the police station the text before its handover Diego-changed so that one could read now, his little brother had died.
Diego, who was imprisoned in the 10-cell began to behave like wild, so that he was repeatedly beaten by the policemen on duty with the rubber floor. Finally resulted in a general riot and the police came into the cell and beat mercilessly on every 10 boys who continued to loudly calling for help, hoping to be the only window that leads to the street, heard from people. The riots flared in the other cell, so that the other 7 young people ruthlessly beaten by the Polize.
When everything did not help, the boys set fire to a part of a foam rubber pad in the hope that pedestrians would see the resulting smoke and the police would have to open the cell.
What happened the other hand, is unimaginable: All signs and investigations after someone poured outside of gasoline or kerosene under the sheet metal door of the 10.Zeller, so that the fire in the room where 10 people were packed, explosive spread. 4 of the boys died in the hours after her again, despite severe burns were beaten up. Some of them were driven around for hours in patrol car until it-all 10 scattered far from each other so that their members do not meet and do activities together-were admitted to hospitals were.
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I Diego and his family knew well, so that the mother asked me the memorial service and funeral directing. I hab'deshalb Diego next Near long seen: His coffin was re-laid as that of Carlitos, the middle of a transition of the slum "Villa Itatí" because the hut of the family Maldonado was much too small for a coffin plus mourners. I can testify that the children are not suffocated by the smoke of the foam cushion, but burned. Diego's face and hands were still in the death of bright red, without any fragments of skin, because they were burned all; Diego also had not the least carbon black stain on the hands or face: Die-set for years belated investigation determines, that all 4 boys to internal burns of the respiratory tract, and none have succumbed to smoke inhalation, as the initial findings of its own police have announced. After 5 years of waiting relatives still waiting for justice of the people: So far not a single policeman was convicted of four murders.
I never will forget the last scene, I have experienced at Diego's grave.
were gone when all people, I stayed at some distance and looked back.
I saw that Diego's sister knelt before the grave. I went back to her to hug her when I noticed that she turned a small cigarette, made of newspaper and hash, lit and stuck in the ground of the fresh grave mound. She said: "Perhaps it would help him find some peace."
What we in the Ecumenical Human Rights Movement think:
Many years ago, in April 1988, we have the following were announced:
"We see the MEDH with great concern the advance of the criteria of an alleged" security "that defend neither the social interests, much less the needs of the children, but the show only and persistent persistence of repressive mentality which has amply proved that it is absolutely harmful for all people, not only for those who practice and enrich themselves by it. We will also need the full social and legal system to do it so far with children and young adults, change from the ground up. We will never be achieved by a greater "security" that we build a stronger and expanded repression of children, with more bars and large padlocks: ¿How should we protect our poor young people about to act against the law, while the torturers and strutting around murderers free of dictatorship and impunity among us? We note with dismay that there are many judges who want our children to the "detention" of those professional criminal henchmen over to the dictatorship, the drive continues to mischief. "
Arturo Blatezky
May 2009
