In an act of historical justice, President Javier Milei has taken a significant step by recognizing the 1974 attack on Army Captain Humberto Antonio Viola and his family as a crime against humanity.
This recognition, announced within the framework of an agreement with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), contrasts with the shameful stance of the Kirchnerist government of Alberto Fernández, which had denied this category to one of the most brutal attacks in Argentina's recent history.
Milei desclasificó información clave sobre los grupos terroristas de la SIDE
On December 1, 1974, in an attack perpetrated by the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), Humberto Viola, his daughter María Cristina, three years old, and his wife, María Cristina Picón, five months pregnant, were victims of an attack in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán.
The little María Fernanda, five years old, survived severely injured, with a gunshot to the head, after undergoing several surgeries. The brutality of the attack, in which both her father and sister died, was surrounded by state impunity that lasted for decades.
"During these years, we have suffered greatly seeing how the different branches of the state shielded the guerrilla members with a veil of impunity, hiding the existence of international norms that considered their crimes as crimes against humanity."
"They should read the confession of the first officer of Montoneros, Héctor Leis, who, in 'Testament of the 70s,' acknowledged that it was estimated that five hundred thousand people were necessary victims to make the revolution succeed."
In her emotional letter, María Fernanda Viola, the surviving daughter and a reference in the fight for memory and justice, celebrated the gesture of Milei's government, considering that the attack was not just a terrorist crime but constituted a crime against humanity, framed in an internal armed conflict publicly recognized by the ERP.
"The recognition of this crime as a human rights violation is an act of justice, but also a historical reparation that we have awaited for years," she expressed.
In the letter titled "Fifty Years of Impunity," María Fernanda Viola not only thanked the decision made by President Milei but also criticized the biased and ideologized stance of the previous Kirchnerist administration.
In her analysis, María Fernanda asserted that Alberto Fernández's government shielded those responsible for the crimes of the terrorist organizations.
The Viola family, after more than fifty years of suffering, begins to see the end of impunity, with the hope that justice will finally prevail in the country. The recognition of this crime as a crime against humanity is just the first step in a long path toward the definitive reparation of the victims of terrorism.
