Atentado a la AMIA: justicia y memoria | AMIA terrorist attack: justice and memory

1. La falta de justicia es una invitación a los terroristas para que ataquen de nuevo.
2. The lack of justice is an invitation for the terrorists to attack again.
3. No tener memoria es una falta de respeto para las víctimas y para nosotros mismos.
4. The lack of memory is a disrespect to the victims.

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The AMIA Bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA) building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, that killed 85 people and injured hundreds. Carried out under Carlos Menem's presidency (1989-1999), it was Argentina's deadliest bombing.

Two years before, in March, 1992, the target of the terrorist was the Israel embassy in Buenos Aires. No body went to jail because this attack.

Argentina is home to a Jewish community of 200,000, the largest in Latin America.

Over the years, the case has been marked by incompetence and accusations of cover-ups. All suspects in the "local connection" (among whom many members of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police) were found to be not guilty in September 2004. In August 2005, federal judge Juan José Galeano, in charge of the case, was impeached and removed from his post on charge of "serious" irregularities and of mishandling of the investigation.

On October 25, 2006, Argentine prosecutors Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martínez Burgos formally accused the government of Iran of directing the bombing, and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out. According to the prosecution's claims in 2006, Argentina had been targeted by Iran after Buenos Aires' decision to suspend a nuclear technology transfer contract to Tehran. This however, has been disputed, because this contract was never terminated, and Iran and Argentina were negotiating on restoration of full cooperation on all agreements from early 1992 till 1994, when the bombing occurred.

Source & more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMI...