Memory, Truth and Justice processes

The trial was of great international importance, especially for the region, where in neighboring countries such as Chile, Uruguay and Brazil, which suffered similar crimes, it was impossible to bring the repressors to justice and their criminals were never convicted.

The only trials that were carried out were for the systematic theft of newborns, and with cases not directly linked to crimes against humanity (illicit association, falsification of public documents, etc.).

Among those pardoned were all the indicted military chiefs who had not benefited from the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws, Leopoldo Galtieri, Jorge Isaac Anaya, Basilio Lami Dozo, Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Massera, Orlando Ramón Agosti, Roberto Viola, Armando Lambruschini, Ramón Camps, Ovidio Riccheri, Norma Kennedy, Duilio Brunello, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz and Guillermo Suárez Mason.

In April 1995, a new organization called HIJOS (Hijos e Hijas por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio) emerged, whose acronym expresses the basic guidelines of the organization: Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Oblivion and Silence, which was originally composed of children of detainees, the disappeared and ex-convicts.

In 1999, a Friendly Settlement Agreement was signed between the parties in which the Argentine State undertook to guarantee an investigation into the truth of the facts denounced in the criminal justice system, although without the possibility of charges or sentences.

In it, the people pointed out as responsible were summoned as witnesses since they could not be prosecuted and convicted; and they had to comply with the obligation to tell the truth about everything they knew under penalty of committing the crime of false testimony.