04/03/2021 16:48
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/03/2021 4:48 PM
The event in Monte Caseros, Corrientes, to commemorate 39 years of the Malvinas war was not just another.
The usual memories of the heroic deeds of the thousands of Argentine soldiers who faced the powerful English army gave way on April 2 to
harsh complaints of torture launched by a former combatant
against his superiors.
"We all had to be in the same conditions to defend the country with our lives, but none of this happened. The conscript soldiers had to face their bosses first, look for food by their own means, from
robbing the ranch
, which we call that of the regimental kitchen,
or killing sheep to eat,
"the president of the Avá Ñaró veterans center, Carlos Enriori, began his crude story.
He surprised everyone with his denunciations but he redoubled the bet: "If they were discovered by their bosses, they were tortured and exposed to all the other soldiers as an example of discipline,
stuck out in the open, in the rain, in the wind and in the cold, and
many of you did it, assholes, scoundrels,
"he lunged, raising his voice as he received questions.
The act in La Plata in which ex-combatants denounce torture during the Malvinas war.
Photo: Télam.
In the midst of the tension and between shouts, Enriori declared that "when the enemy showed his teeth, coming with all his strength,
many leaders hid,
others clashed suddenly, evacuated, and others fled leaving the loons in the front battle ".
"I know what I tell you is strong, but the soldiers who dare to tell our experiences have always done it with honesty. It hurts to do so but it is the only way to know the enormous mistake that the Armed Forces made in the war of Malvinas, "he launched, and claimed that" current military personnel must be held responsible for the mistakes made. "
Enriori's accusations in Corrientes are in tune with the claim of many others who on the same day launched a public campaign to denounce torture.
It was in an act that was held in La Plata, at the Malvinas Islands Ex-Combatants Center (Cecim).
For the complaints of torture during the war there is an open case in the federal justice of Rio Grande, with four officers of the Armed Forces processed in a file with
more than 120 complaints and 95 defendants.
Strong response
These harsh accusations and complaints were highly questioned in the last hours by the Malvinas War Veterans Association, which attributed them to an alleged campaign to "
again aggravate the cadres of the Armed Forces
."
"This campaign, which can respond to questions of individual positions or tiny groups, with selfish political and economic purposes, has been developed with abundant and intentional dissemination to achieve the discredit of the Armed Forces and Security during the Malvinas War," he says. the notice.
For these veterans, "the efforts of the combatants and of the Nation gathered by History and the individual and collective memory of the Argentine people are intended to cover with ignominy and discredit, with victimization and denunciation."
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