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Legacy cases are called by their children or for acts linked with human rights bodies such as the kidnapping of the founders of the Mothers. The testimony delivered to the ritual of the trial left in the room the feel of final accounts, numbered for later.
By Alejandra Dandan
Enriqueta Maroni just called. Aida Sarti hand with the phone in turn made another call, moved, hurried Nelida's death Chidichimo, but stopped in the other thing that still reveals these women, all that still lies ahead. "I just told Harriet that we can not lose more time, he says, we must put things in order."
They are among the many mothers who passed in recent months, federal courts Comodoro Py to testify for crimes against humanity. Some did convened by the cases of their loved ones, those that make up the lists of victims of repression, but others like Nora Cortinas, Sarti Aída María del Rosario Cerruti or attended as witnesses to other facts, such as kidnapping in the Church of Santa Cruz. When speaking, Nora not only referred to what they dealt with in detail in the history of Mothers. Aida was a poster with the faces of the first women in the Plaza and newspaper clippings of time for anyone to "walk changing" the dates, places, and above all, history. Among those, the testimony delivered to the ritual of the trial left in the room the feel of final accounts, numbered for later. That and the idea of \u200b\u200ban end perhaps a little closer, they seem to be pushing them to talk very much.
The paradigmatic case is perhaps the Chorobik Nelida Mariani. Last year, the founder of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo asked the judges of the Federal Court in June, plan to judge the systematic theft of babies, which authorizes a special hearing and virtually Move start of the trial, so that she could testify. The debate had not begun and will not start until late February, but told them Chicha still repeated from time to time, which is great, and I did not know whether to when they finally opened the hearing she would be able to declare on disappearance of her granddaughter Clara Anahí.
"On 27 November I turned 87 years old and until then I had not taken very seriously, "he says. "Three years after the age of 90 think I realized it required a body and health too and decided to make a number of things, such as accelerating what I have in hand, both trials and projects." And then adds "Does it seem strange that at my age talk about projects? But are the things that worked in these 33 years. "
She stated in October for almost seven hours. Described. She cried and spoke despite his near blindness and pressure fluctuations, said that as the first, he felt the need so no one can tell. In this regard, pointing out he heard the story of Grandmothers or how improbable followed tracks to find a way to make genetic testing; of slips kept in a diary, travel to Sweden, Paris and Germany looking for experts to shut the doors, slamming doors of the Church and also the reasons why he thinks, from closed files and slowness of justice, Marcela Noble could be his granddaughter.
"The statement in Comodoro Py tried to have some way what it meant torture of searching without end, because if I knew the first day they were going to spend 33 years and still not found the answer, I think I would have died right there, "says Pagina/12. Always ran behind a carrot, he says, hoping jumping back and forth, "and I'm always thinking about a miracle, and so convinced that I'm pretty stupid."
In mid-sentence, that day the judges did not wait to finish and talk and ordered a recess and made to wait because they wanted lunch. Chicha waited in a small room where, although it is forbidden for someone to speak to witnesses, went to ask him José Valentín Martínez Sobrino, the judge of that TOF 6 challenged by it and away from the cause.
memory aids Nora Curtis entered the courtroom of the trial for the crimes of the ESMA with tachycardia and a slip of memory aids. Before sitting, she had had a first beaten in a duel with the fastidious judges TOF 5. The secretary said: "Madam, can not enter the tissue position." Nora put it the same, "I do get the judges," he said. Hours later, he knew what happened to the ban for his handkerchief. One judge told him that when they entered and saw the headscarf, argued: it was two against one, you wanted to take him out and two that leave. "But the fact was accomplished," says Nora, and as I had to tell me ahead of the public, decided that they left me. "
Nora, who declared in November, followed in January in Buenos Aires, thinks you think, when they sit down to write things that have not yet written . She was called to discuss the kidnapping of the French nuns and the group Mothers in those days met in the Church of Santa Cruz, and gather money and the names of missing the first requested to publish in newspapers . Nora talked for hours. But before telling of Santa Cruz, spoke about the kidnapping of his son, his approach to the first mother, the moment when another mother asked how long he searched for her son and she realized she did not know if I would be able to support both, of dates, the crosses on the bars, Alfredo Astiz. But also in that line, in which the story is recalled in this political intervention was devoted everything he could to remember the camp that they did Clarín, the details of the negotiations with the newspaper The Nation for publishing locked that sought, a talk with Claudio Escribano and Joaquín Morales Solá, and the link to Robert Cox of the Buenos Aires Herald, with an air-finals and final.
"In my case, exceed the questions I was going to do, the story I was remembering things and telling. "
same day said Maria del Rosario and the next day Aida Sarti, which is responsible for archiving meticulous Mothers Founding Line. Nora had gathered with Maria del Rosario to remember some details, especially over the years. "She was called solely to discuss the Santa Cruz, because he witnessed the abduction and told us," says Nora, "'Look, I'm going to adhere to this that I lived and I on 9 December, for example I did not stay because I had to work ', and so we were complementing. "There is some need to build an account of a historical purist who appeared in some, as in the case of Aida, which took the audience files so no one will change things.
But the idea of \u200b\u200bone story, which somehow still present or crosses, we live in different ways. To give encouragement and reassurance, and find ways to move forward, Nora sought a remedial response: "I believe that if three or four of us were ever sitting at a table in a circumstance X," says Nora, "the story of each end will always be different because each has its moments, and you together the four stories and will never be the same. "
Maria del Rosario had already spoken when Nora began. And as one of the witnesses to the kidnapping of Santa Cruz, his account was used to place each of the victims in time and space, and the judges asked him to make the picture of the place on a blackboard. She did, and only spoke extensively of what he was asked to speak. "I went with no expectations because justice is so dull when it ceases to be justice, but I went because I feel compelled to missing persons." In this context, Maria del Rosario seems to speak after the possibility of transmitting their experience nevertheless in this context it is ritualized and appears clothed features historical. An experience that again and again repeated, she knows that justice is a concern, but the interest may be elsewhere: "People are going to report, he says, and it is so important from my point of view, I it's okay, but in court I have no faith. " She is 83 years old.
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Aida Sarti is on file Mothers cut Mexican newspaper that during the dictatorship issued a news report that the December 16, 1977 had appeared three female corpses in Santa Teresita. "At that time he associated it now says," but after I left cut stuck in a carpetón and I took him to the audience. "It also led the presentation of 199 habeas corpus they did in June 1977. "You want to tell you more, he says, on 30 June."
Aida is about nine years ago in the file, organizes the world of documents of Mothers. He says that these documents came when she started sorting papers that had been in different places, you put carpetones and organized and takes special care as part of the material that integrates the first seven months of the organization, which is the time where you were Azucena Villaflor. The Court requested a copy of this cut, and she is convinced that none of the Mothers of the habeas corpus remember that among them were still "very unfamiliar" and that is a document that was made when the surrounding Astiz. "It was very cold, he says, and he had portfolios of Mothers and that day was the guy I was. I then had the first doubt, but then I was, but I thought it was not the same guy that had led to the Plaza the first time that this was too dark and the other was brown. That day we had a coffee with milk and not talked Pepa Noia anything with it, or even the idea we missed anything. "
Like others before asked to declare one of the complainants how was the process. "They're going to ask questions, but you talk about what you want," he replied. "We talk about Astiz, how we started, but the problem is we all want to be first: I had to make a poster to say who were the first fourteen who were, so it does not change history." These fourteen are those that were on the second date, she started in the third, is not that poster and I were about twenty. At present, Aida knows who loses his glasses in the potato "twenty times a day, which maybe forget what you did five minutes earlier, but the Mother's history, he says, do not forget anything. Rumors
Aurora Bellocchio declared in the case of circuit-Olimpo Atlético-Bank, and among the rumors said she was so nervous decompensation: "But no!" He says. "For nothing!" She is a year of 90, when angered some say that all are "one foot in the grave", but at the hearing or angry, or broke down, with his story did mourn the judges.
"I would say that I was not nervous, I had calmed down a psychologist and I was told that I was not for the branches, as I talk a lot, I go to tell of my grandfather. "
Aurora said the same day his grandson Carlos Pisoni, the group HIJOS. She knew, but of course, he says, "as they take you to another room I do not know what he spoke or what he did, when I see him sitting as nervous, I do not know if they kissed or touched her face, but I had to room. "
The audience does not even once looked to where they were "the damned" he says. And the questions were so gentle, that at one point thought he was in a report. He looked at one of the judges and was crying. "It was when I told my grandson brought two women, one a policeman, and as they said they could not have children want to stay with the baby. "
was a rainy day, says Aurora, a woman with a commanding tone hits door of his house to ask for "Bellocchio. Demanding documents, and while down Aurora did not think could be a neighbor because they never could speak well. "And then I see a bulge in his arms, I ask you, I see a woven blanket, documents and asked me when I see the baby, 'something happened to Irene'."
With this woman was a lady with a bassinet began to mourn: "what?" he asked. "What happens is that my sister (I say that this was her sister) tells me not deliver, he does not want, that the baby had arrived illegally, but all night I was talking to her, because the order was that what we bring to the grandparents. "They gave it to" reluctantly ", he says, but when they climbed the baby, who had cried all night, still did not stop. "My daughter, I was, I said 'good, Tenel you' and I had him in her arms, close to the heart: Do you believe me? He fell asleep and stopped. I said, because it is true, that baby never it would part of my heart. "
Aurora felt applause from the other side of the glass, in the auditorium. The glass divides the room into two parts, one side are the witnesses, the court, lawyers and defendants. And the other, family members, survivors and the public. His grandson had already declared. He asked the genocide they say where are the bodies of their relatives. "Unconsciously, she says," I never looked to that side. "