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| Not so long ago, during the Seventies, Argentina's then military dictatorship detained, tortured and murdered thousands of citizens, who were considered undesirable. Many of the victim's children were 'reallocated' to new families, many of them never told these children their true origin. Cordoba created a museum to remember the victims. It is located in one of the old detention centres, right beside the Great Cathedral...one of many regular houses in a block |
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| In the museum, a photo of some of the ruling personages of those horrific days, some where later condemned to prison terms, but many evaded prosecution |
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| Some of the behavior or acts, which could bring about detention and imprisonment: Outlandish behaviour Lack of manners Long hair falling over a shirt collar Beards on men, and make up on women Dressing other than prescribed by superiors Incorrigible and lacking good behavior Fiddling with your hands And it went on like that for long lists of 'criminal' behaviour, that deserved 'eradication', together with type written copies of 'orders of the day' which outlined which people, districts, parks or university to target for the day's harvest of victims |
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| Prisoners were kept for days in small stone walled and tile floored cells without windows, crowded together without anywhere to sit or lay down - awaiting assessment, being photographed and 'processed' |
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| A stone ledge in a corner of one of the narrow hall ways served as photo booth, where prisoner sat down, a sign with their number and the date of the photograph was held over their head by an official, and the 'portrait' was taken |
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| Some were photographed before being tortured, some afterward |
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| Signs of beatings on most of the faces or bodies, mostly young men and women, their expression resigned, defeated |
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| The entrance to the museum is decorated with giant fingerprints, each small part of a swirl is the name of a victim, some known to have died, but many have merely 'disappeared' from the face of the earth |
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| Their names will never be forgotten |
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| Here acted the CCDT 'D2", which tortured and killed thousands of people.... |
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| How many prisoners may have seen their last ray of sunshine in this bleak back porch? |
