Malvinas: mothers and fathers of the Nacional de Buenos Aires …

The mothers and fathers of the National School of Buenos Aires (CNBA) presented Monday a letter to the authorities of the institution in which they expressed the "rejection and rejection of the content of the commemorative act of 9 July", which took place last Thursday at Aula Magna, when two ex-air force officers, veterans of the Falklands war, ignored the role of the last civil-military dictatorship and the torture of conscripts during the war.

The letter also requests an urgent meeting with the rector for explanations and for "prevent such situations that do not reflect the feelings of those who support and defend a democratic education, respect for institutions, secular institutions, the public and quality"says the letter that's at the time of the presentation more than 350 signatures.

The letter began to circulate among the parents the day after the controversial presentation and a few hours after the rejections and repudiations that broke out in the various Whatsapp groups of the educational community.

"We believe that it is disrespectful to the memory of fallen soldiers during the Falklands war and families of this school that at the ceremony, two air force officers in retirement praised the role of the armed forces during the war., through a video or a presentation, also containing religious elements not admitted in a public and secular school ", indicates the letter presented Monday afternoon.

He adds: "All this when we know that the armed conflict means the death of 18-year-olds who were sent to combat without equipment, without preparation, to face a professional enemy, young people who have even suffered acts of violence. torture and ill-treatment, high commandments ".

History of a climate of the time

He also points out that it is not an isolated event but part of the particular spirit of the times imbued by the current government. "At a time when the national authorities and their defense minister had rejected episodes threatening the democracy found in 1983, what happened at the CNBA worries much more", keep the signatories.

And in this sense, remember that "during the last commemorative act of May 25, there was a teacher who spoke and praised the desert countryside, reading a document without self-criticism on the genocide of indigenous peoples ".

"We are anxiously watching a pattern that scares us and sounds all the alarms about an ideological line that does not represent the history of this school", warns the letter written by a group of mothers and fathers of the 3 teams, at the same time she asks explanations to the new rector Valeria Bergman, who took office last February.

It should be remembered that during the act commemorating Independence Day, in the presence of students, authorities and teachers of the school, the two exoficiales have planned a video of about 20 minutes in which they showed the military bases the pilots were trained, which aircraft were used in the war and operations in which the air force intervened. The images were accompanied by an epic music and an ending with the Ave Maria.

In this context, once the video ended, the questions were opened. "A comrade stopped and asked them what they thought of the colimbas who had been taken to war without any prior training and of the 30,000 missing from the dictatorship," said Vicente Liut, a student of fifth year who participated in the event. It has 108 victims of state terrorism, among students and alumni.

One of the exoficiales replied that the students "deserved the truth and not a political opinion," said the CNBA student, and that they were not in a position to comment on the torture inflicted on colimbas during the Malvinas war, because in the air force. The conscripts did not participate, unlike the army and the navy.

At that time, a father who claimed to have been mobilized in Rio Gallegos stopped and asked them to answer the question about torture. He felt at the same time that the act was a slavery for the comrades who had been taken away to die, that it was a shame and that she had to stop, "said Liut, pointing out that" the whole of Aula Magna had applauded it ".

While the issue took on a public status with the note of Página / 12, the rejection of the presentation of the two former aeronautics crossed the walls of the university a few hours after the event, when the social networks were warmed up and have multiplied the repudios of parents and pupils. .

The Mapacs, mothers and fathers convened in their personal capacity, issued a statement in which they repudiated the presence at the CNBA of "members of the armed forces who do not question their actions in the civil-military dictatorship". The FFAA who ignore torture and the systematic disappearance of people silently faced with questions about a decided irresponsible war, in which they sent untrained boys to fight in an unequal conflict, where the soldiers were also tortured and mistreated. "

"The only military place allowed in the CNBA is that of self-criticism, the revision of the actions during the military civic dictatorship which includes the war of the Malvinas before the whole society. The war has further removed the possibility of recovering this national territory, "says the text prompted other parents to bademble the letter addressed to the rector.

"It's very rude what happened," said Mapac member Martina Miravalles, "we are very surprised, everything that happens in a school is an educational act, and this act for to approach an event is shameful. "

Miravalles said, as an individual, that "if there is no response from the authorities, it would be necessary to repair and put pressure on the educational community, because silence is also a very strong response. , and our answer to that should also be ".

The Student Center also repudiated the act through a statement and asked the authorities to respond: "It is one thing to defend the claim of territorial sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and another is to do the deaf ear to a life process of thousands of people ".

The president of the student center, Julia Epstein, told the newspaper that "they brought the army, not the children who did the colimba, and what they came to say was obvious. But in addition to not understanding the need to connect the Falklands to 9 July, the father who intervened ended up saying what we all thought. We repudiate the fact and we want an explanation of the educational purpose with which they were brought. "