"This visit is a tribute to the victims of the dictatorship," said the Commissioner of the IACHR – Telam

Forty years after the emblematic visit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to the country in the midst of a military dictatorship, a delegation of the organization arrives tomorrow in Buenos Aires in "tribute to the victims" and in memory of this inspection of the In 1979, which became "an essential legal element of the transition process in Argentina".

That's what Antonia Urrejola, Chilean Commissioner in Telam, Second Vice-President and Rapporteur for Memory, Truth and Justice, and Indigenous Peoples of the IACHR, who is part of the delegation that will arrive tomorrow in the world, said. the country.

"The IACHR's 1979 trip to Argentina was important to the victims of state terrorism in the country and to the development of the inter-American system in terms of the promotion and protection of human rights. at the regional level ", said the commissioned

He added that this visit "made it possible to shed light on the serious human rights violations perpetrated in the framework of State policy by the Argentine military regime, so that the international community be attentive to these crimes "and, in turn," become a key legal element for the transition process in Argentina ".