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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

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“There cannot be a mantle of oblivion. No society can start a new stage on an ethical claudication like” – Raúl Alfonsín

It is a matter of pride for the Argentine Foreign Affairs Ministry and especially for the National Foreign Service under my direction, to give you a very warm welcome and to be able to host the 33rdCourse on International Law and Legal Information organized by the prestigious International Association of Law Libraries (IALL).

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1 Alfonsín is a former Argentinian President. He was in office when CONADEP was created. CONADEP means Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons).Google Scholar

2 The date of the coup of 1976.Google Scholar

3 Visitors will probably experience overwhelming and hopeful feelings at the same time. The sinister place of detention and death has become a place of collective memory to remember forever what should not be repeated again. Mrs. María Teresa Piñero, from the Area of Human Rights will lead together with Mrs. Hilda Micucci direct witness to these disappearances: two children, a girl and a boy. The daughter was a librarian. Visitors will hear the story of the former Esma, the horrors there during the military dictatorship and the government's decision to convert this area into one of permanent memory for such aberrations will not be forgotten and will never be repeated. It will be another opportunity to pay tribute to those victims.Google Scholar