Sunday, July 17, 2011

Imagining Argentina

Watched a movie yesterday starring Antonio Banderas essaying the role of an ordinary man with psychic power whose journalist wife had been kidnapped on reason of suspicion. Later his teenage daughter too was arbitrarily abducted from his home by the millitary personnel. The movie was based on the dark period of Argentina between 1976-83. It led me thinking how could the govt pardon all the perpetrators responsible for the kidnapping & disappearance of some 30,000 nationals most of whom were women brutally tortured & physically abused before being shot to death & after 20 yrs, Supreme Court of Argentina reverted the law in 2005 to punish the culpable most of whom by now must have died naturally or having lived their life to the fullest now counting their last days. What a shocking travesty of justice !! 

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