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Massive participation in the March of Silence. They demand justice and remember the almost two hundred detainees who disappeared during the civil-military dictatorship. Since the democratic recovery in 1985, mothers and relatives have denounced the silence and denial of the military commanders regarding the disappeared.
“Never again state terrorism”, was the slogan that went through the massive march this Saturday through the streets of Montevideo with a month to go before the 50th anniversary of the civic-military coup. Thousands of Uruguayans marched to ask for truth and justice for the detainees who disappeared during the last dictatorship (1973-1985). Like every year since 1996, the March of Silence was called by mothers and relatives of the victims and it was headed by the question that has been repeated for half a century: Where are they?
Images disseminated through social networks and local media showed thousands of people who marched not only through the streets of Montevideo but also through almost 60 other towns in the country with the same slogan “Where will they be? Never again State Terrorism”. The tribute was organized by the movement of Mothers and Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Uruguay (Famidesa), in collaboration with unions and other civil society organizations. The movement called for participation with photos of the disappeared in their arms, white handkerchiefs, demanding Memory, Truth and Justice. The relatives continued to criticize the inadequate management of the Justice to find the whereabouts of the disappeared and demanded that the armed forces assume their responsibility.
Since the democratic recovery in 1985, mothers and relatives They have denounced the silence and denial of the military commanders regarding the disappeared. In this context, they sought information inside and outside the country, without being received by several presidents. In 2005, under the first government of the Broad Front (centre-left), the search for the disappeared began in Uruguayan territory. Since then, six cases have been cleared up.
With the advent of democracy, human rights violations were not investigated and amnesties were issued through mechanisms such as the Law of Expiration of the Exercise of the Punitive Claim of the State of 1988moment in which the Uruguayan State renounced the criminal trial of those responsible.
