The Human Rights Area, the Faculty of Political Science and the Museum of Memory presented a Confidential Information of people who disappeared and were murdered during the last dictatorship in the Rosario department, on the International Day of the Detained-Disappeared.

The creation of this database, which today reaches 400 cases, began in 2013 with the survey of all circulating lists from various areas of the city. It was the work of Human Rights Organizations, family members, independent investigations and the Museum of Memory that provided the greatest contributions at the beginning. For this purpose, data from judicial cases, human rights secretariats, complaints from Conadep, the Unified Registry of Victims of State Terrorism (RUVTE), files from schools, from the University, testimonies from family members, friends, information from books were also gathered. , from newspapers of political organizations and the Museum's own archives.

“Accounting for traumatic events that result from the genocide that our country experienced and reconstructing traces and life paths is a very complex task, because we are talking about people who remain missing and/or murdered. Therefore, the process of searching for information required a thorough, artisanal and sensitive investigation,” said the Secretary of Human Rights of the UNR Paula Contino, who emphasized that after 41 years of democracy, the genocidaires sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes of against humanity, “they maintain their pact of silence regarding the fate of their repressive actions.” In this scenario, as happened in the trials, “the testimonies and the varied material consulted were essential to rebuild those lives that were deliberately torn apart.”

The dean of the Faculty of Political Science Cintia Pinillos explains that the history of this Base is collective because in 2019 a team of teachers, students, graduates from different careers of the Faculty was formed to carry out this research that worked on the reconstruction of the life trajectories and the assembly of the cards. A work that she defines as “artisanal but at the same time very committed to the theme” in which 30 people participated and made it today have the dimension it has.

“Each case is a unique story,” says Lorena Pontelli, the project’s academic coordinator, explaining that the volunteers who embarked on the meticulous reconstruction of each name found themselves