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was 51 years old, a widow, had two children. His voice, his memory, his courage were instrumental in the long road that still runs to achieve justice the perpetrators of the genocide perpetrated during the military dictatorship in Argentina. In his body bore marks of torture, rape and abortion result of that other form of systematic torture. Nine stabbing his life ended just ten days ago, a fact that while not completely cleared the suspicion of being saved for not only streets but also to intimidate the rest of the men and women who are bearing witness in hundreds of cases still open. As if to put a spin again the drive belt with the genocidal terror wanted to ensure their own impunity. But fear, say those who survived and prove their testimony, fails to stop the pursuit of justice, the need to continue to talk to memory. Although it hurts, but burning.

For over 30 years, Silvia Suppo and his partner George "Cork" Destefani fought for memory and justice in Rafaela, the conservative city of 100 000 inhabitants called the Pearl of the West Santafesino, where the economy flourishes and remains the spirit of Piedmont immigration. Were co-membership when they were abducted on 24 May 1977 and derivatives together clandestine detention centers in the provincial capital. Decided to return to his hometown, against all odds, when they were released it after a year and a half, after five years of captivity. They set up a couple, had two children, carried out the leather harness always in the center of the city, built a light house and never set aside the membership.
All March 24 commemoration organized, invited Estela de Carlotto, prompted lawsuits against oppressors. In October last year, Silvia gave key testimony in the case Brusa, and recalled his partner, who had died a few months earlier a disease. On Monday 29 March, mid-morning, Silvia tending his business. Excited because in a few days traveled to Paris to visit his brother. Between 9 and 10, they hit 9 stab wounds. They left behind the counter, and was found a while later, an occasional client. He died around noon at the Hospital Jaime Ferre. "We hold the hypothesis of a political murder until we prove otherwise with a convincing investigation," said Marina, his daughter, after the march that called for the enormity of 1200 people, in Rafaela to ask for the "total enlightenment" . Although the prosecutor and the judge Rodolfo Alejandro Zehnder Mognaschi work on the main hypothesis of murder during robbery, the cruelty of the crime leaves more questions than answers.

and puts very raw wounds present for witnesses, survivors. "This causes a deep pain, a pain I feel for the first time in this way. By shared history. I do not know how we will heal. Because we find him around the trial, to make decision, but this is a pain that I can not find words, "said a tearful Stella Vallejos, Silvia companion in captivity Guard Reinforced Infantry joined the Santa Fe The deep relationship which was as a mark of life among the political prisoners spent together. They visited every so often, shared instances of trial Brusa, celebrated together the sentence. In that case were convicted on 21 December, former judge Victor Brusa, Juan Calixto Perizotti, Maria Eva Aebi, Mario Facino, Hector Colombini and Eduardo "Curro" Ramos to prison terms of between 19 and 23 years in prison.
While not clarified, what happened to Sylvia updates the horror of the disappearance of Jorge Julio López. "In Argentina, to testify in court is still present life," said historian Andrea Andújar. So live it people who are coming to testify, but not fazed. "I think we all know where we are saying and what we are saying. But it is accompanied by the society that protects us most and it is understood that these cases are not closed, that much to investigate, with economic powers that support them, as in the case of the alleged children of Ernestina Herrera Noble believes Liliana Gomez Feced megacauses witness who is about to begin in Rosario. For its part, Adriana Calvo, of the Association of Former Detainees and Missing Persons, witnesses stressed that survivors have a mandate to be broken drive belt terror. "We were able to testify to fight for justice," he said. The words of the survivors not only bring this to the disappeared, whose place of occurrence is the memory, but also hatched the plot to build a future of material witness
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Silvia's testimony was important because there could see their faces to the oppressors when they took to recover from an abortion in the Clandestine Detention Center La Casita. Silvia specifically address sexual violence as another form of torture. It took years to name but when he did not hesitate. She recalled that she realized her pregnancy when she had been transferred from the CCD of the 4 th Precinct to GIR. Perizotti-responsible for their place of detention, he said they should "fix the error." She was 18. LasI12 In an interview last year, Silvia recalled his indignation at the words of Perizotti. "Like it was a mistake. I froze when I said that. There was no error, three people do not violate by mistake. He said it as if it were the work of some stupid, as if they had used as a method, "said Silvia. His testimony, like other witnesses, not only had the courage to acknowledge the oppressors, but also put things in place: violations were otherwise specifically torture. It was not easy to say.
Therefore, the act of last March 24 in Santa Fe was different. Read the sentence. On another occasion, the complainant and gave him a copy to the governor and lieutenant governor Hermes Binner Tessio Griselda. She-who was a prosecutor in human rights causes, was the only provincial official who came to discuss the possibility of "thugs." That is, a crime for crime scene
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In the same week of murder, two youths were arrested as suspects. Rodrigo Sosa, a boy of 19 who made a living washing cars, known as Sosita, and his cousin Rodolfo Coceres, 22. A Sosita, Silvia knew him because once in a while the boy was washing the car. The suspects said they had come to steal and was awarded the crime, denied committing to order. The few things they had stolen, and the alleged victim's cell, were at a relative's house to cook. But a story published last Sunday by Juan Carlos Tizziani Página/12 details some contradictions: young people said they had murdered in front of the trade, and then dragged behind the counter, but there is not a drop of blood throughout the journey. Suspects also said Silvia had resisted the robbery, and so was killed. But the expert's Perassolo Dolores saw no defensive wounds and cutting in the hands or arms. From day one, the children of Sylvia felt that her mother can not resist a robbery.
Another point is the contamination of the crime scene. Counsel for Children of Santa Fe, Lucila Puyol, who with his colleague William Munn represents the sons of Silvia, said: "From the first moment we question how contaminated the crime scene. When police arrived, began to take fingerprints and had many people in the trade. So much so that when the children entered, they had to throw the curious. There was not even a fence, and that's significant because those hours are critical. " The professional also criticized the deputy prosecutor of the time, Christine Fortunato, was not called by the police for the first steps. "That same day, when we went to talk to the prosecutor, she had not even been notified, he was told after the inspection was over," recalled Puyol.
After meeting with the prosecutor, counsel stated that "the cruelty and treachery prevent us from raising a homicide on the occasion of theft, can be custom made, or at least qualified by treachery." He noted that "police are trying to quickly close the case. But as they say the sons of Silvia, there must be a process that really show how the events occurred, because she, as a witness to crimes against humanity, may have been the victim of an attack as so many others. " Puyol
itself suffered last year, the stealing of his law, which, precisely, shortage of computer hard disks. The police investigation quickly closed as a common theft. So Santa Fe Children sectional warned the same day of the crime that he could not confine the investigation. In this sense, Munné called the State, "if as they say the police, judicial and executive, do not rule out the hypothesis of the attack on Silvia as a witness to crimes against humanity, this hypothesis should be working with a broader investigative framework scope than common crime. Is best for the peace of the witnesses, that such a situation is not minimized, because the vulnerability is greater if a situation of such gravity is not really depth research. "
Along these lines, Puyol considered essential that the State did not crystallize impunity, something that happens "without investigating the facts occurred, or end in nothing, without charge, without knowing who they are based, because here there are financial and human resources. It takes resources and people, not the oppressors are those between 70 and 80 years. " The gunman theory has to do with "doubts about whether a crime may have been commissioned by the witness as Silvia. But the cause is still no items in any way. Is in the preliminaries. "Another cause
The truth is that Silvia was complainant in a case investigating the Federal Court No. 1 Santa Fe, the disappearance of Hattemer Reinaldo, who was kidnapped on January 25, 1977 in a church Rafaela, which was crowded to witness the marriage of one of his brothers. Silvia recognized four people in your city, and then again four months later, when they kidnapped her and her brother, Hugo Suppo, and Destefani. Of the four accused as kidnappers, two died. And two live in Rafaela. One of them is retired, and the other works in the private security company. "Until now the two cases are unrelated. One thing that is in the Federal Court, which remains open. In that case, Silvia and her husband were plaintiffs. On the other hand, is the cause for the murder of Silvia, a provincial magistrate, with Sosa and Coceres as suspects, "said Puyol.
Like many witnesses in cases involving crimes against humanity, Silvia suffered threats and intimidation. One and a half ago when she went to testify at the preliminary stage of the case Brusa, intimidated her with threatening people who stood in front of witnesses negocio.Valientes
With the cause for the murder of Silvia state Suppo preliminary, it is impossible to have certainty. Yes, the victim of a brutal murder was an important witness against oppressors in cases of crimes against humanity. And in Rafaela such killings on the occasion of robbery are very unusual. Doubt, fear, pain caused His death has a ripple effect and the demand for justice.
"The simple fact that we are arises certainly means that things are not clear and we feel that there is no protection. It means being exposed. Precisely, the protection is this, that society aware that we are exposed, we are judging genocide, that some of the perpetrators are not prosecuted, others are fugitives, that there is no control from state agencies on which visits are and what contacts are those that are incarcerated. And there are many to house arrest ", stated Lisa Gomez, who strongly questioned the response of the Programme Protection of Witnesses in the province, by Oscar Blando. "The first thing that came to say was that Silvia was not in the program. That is our ransom. Care means that only witnesses who are in the program. It was an answer that really upset me. There is a political response to give, "said the witness of the case Feced. For her, the doubts generated by the murder of Silvia, and the certainties of the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, "mean that the issue is still alive." Witness
the same cause as Silvia, and with great emotional closeness to her, Stella Vallejos not stop thinking about the value of the testimony. "We want to be careful, because such acts are intended to intimidate, and we do not replicate," said Vallejos. What witness? "It's a painful experience is to expose everything that happened, but it's liberating, liberates you because you contribute to the historical reconstruction, make a contribution to ending impunity, and that's priceless. Unfortunately we have a missing witness and a death we need to clarify. I will continue giving evidence because I was complainant in a case but I will be a witness in others, "he says.
Meanwhile, Adriana Calvo, of the Association of Former Detainees and Missing Persons admitted que crímenes como el de Silvia “por supuesto que generan temor, como lo generó el secuestro de Julio López, y en ese caso incluso no había ninguna duda sobre el motivo. En este puede quedarle a alguien alguna duda. Nosotros pensamos que, hasta que se demuestre lo contrario, esto tiene objetivos políticos, de amedrentar, de amenazar brutalmente a los testigos”. La sobreviviente afirmó que “generar temor es uno de los fines que buscan. Los que hace mucho que estamos en esto sabemos que no está mal tener miedo, lo que hay que lograr es que no te paralice”.
Entre los mandatos que los genocidios dejaron en la sociedad, uno de ellos fue que los sobrevivientes actúen como cadena de transmisión of terror. "That was the goal that would have survived. But from the Association we say that we broke that mandate. Because we do not convey the horror testimony but the struggle of the companions, who were, why they were taken, the possible resistance in the concentration camps, the demand for justice. We were able to overcome this mandate because we struggled, and the terror did not achieve its objective, which is crippling, "said witness at the ESMA. For many, as it was for Silvia-fight for justice was a source of life. "The core of our membership was dedicated to that. We believe that in that sense we have broken the mandate of genocide. "The account of his life
Silvia afraid? Marina, his daughter, 24, does not hesitate for a moment. "He was never afraid. Instead, he struggled. Her biggest fear was the injustice and impunity, these were their ghosts. "Therefore, recalls, when he declared in Brusa because" he took a great weight lifted. " And slips the memory of his mother care for her and her brother Andrew. "We knew something, but she was waiting for our intellectual and psychological processes, so that we assume what our mother had to live. She protected us from these violent and morbid issues that were not part of the legacy he wanted to leave us " Marina says.
convened to discuss the person who was Silvia Suppo, who at 18 was a nursing student and activist in the Peronist Youth, Navy emphasizes "engagement" that continued throughout his life, who reached age 51. Marina remembers her mother "was a fighter, an activist all his life, at all levels involved for one person. Was always consistent, despite all impunity. Estimated only after 30 years was able to send prisoners to the people involved. But they could not break ideologically, they could not corrupt. That was the great triumph of her, her generation, survivors of those years. "
Navy wants to emphasize the political legacy of his mother not only in grand gestures but also in everyday life. "From how we are educated, from love, but also with such consistency, always looking for justice, truth, always going for the democratic side, the smallest act, which means making food from trivial everyday decisions, why juice buy, which give us information, which school to go, was very consistent throughout his life. " Therefore, considered important to remind your mother for the "human side, which is political, because it has to do with ethics." And remember that your mom and dad were "a political choice. Could be lost in the anonymity of a larger city, but decided to start their life here through thick and thin. It was very difficult to load with the past, now we are proud but at some point was a burden. They were very afraid of how that we could affect me and Andrew. I appreciate that very much, that in this city that is still conservative, but it was much more 30 years ago, they left to report what happened. "
For Marina, it is no coincidence the reaction of the city. "The approach that we had was stronger than expected, the degree of commitment they have shown, both branches of government and organizations NGOs, the support we received was unexpected. Rafaela was extremely agitated, approached many people had not even declared a political interest, moved a lot, and that so I have to admit, "said Marina.
Crime Silvia Rafaela Suppo mobilized. "It later formed a group of friends and fellow Marine to do something about what had happened. We are meeting with other organizations and people Rafaela in particular to continue the struggle for the elucidation of the murder, "said Dahiana Belfiori, Vines women's group. Thus they came to the march of Friday, when the enormity of 1200 gathered people in a city of 100 000, with high levels of apathy.
is that Silvia and Cork were not as together as in large cities in their struggle for human rights, but recently saw the fruits of his preaching. "She was very aware that with his partner led the fight in great solitude. But obviously the seed is planted, because now we are many and many of us concerned and turning to shed light on his crime, "said Belfiori.
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