REFLEKSI: Kekejaman militer di Indonesia menelan sejuta jiwa manusia dan ratusan ribu dipenjarakan tanpa proses pengadilan yang membuktikan kesalahan mereka. Agaknya hukum kafir lebih menghargai keadilan bagi jiwa manusia yang menjadi korban keganasan dari pada Indonesia yang berpayung pada falsafah Allah dan wahyuNya.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/international/americas/24cnd-argentina.html?hp&ex=1143262800&en=ee3d68e79d4efba6&ei=5094&partner=homepage Argentina Marks 30th Anniversary of Murderous Regime By LARRY ROHTER Published: March 24, 200 BUENOS AIRES, March 24 - The posters and billboards vowing "Never Again" were put up days ago, accompanied by special museum displays, photographic exhibitions, books, public forums and television programs. Enlarge This Image Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press Crowds gathered in Buenos Aires today before a display honoring those who disappeared during the dictatorship that began with a coup 30 years ago. Then today, Argentina came to a halt to mark the 30th anniversary of the military coup that ushered in the dictatorship that may have been the most murderous in modern South American history. Overcoming some resistance in Congress, President Néstor Kirchner succeeded earlier this month in making the date a permanent holiday, to be called the "National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice." In response, many Argentines marched or held commemorative vigils across the country in recent days, while a few gathered outside the homes of former officials of the military dictatorship to hurl insults, eggs, rocks, sticks and containers of paint. At a ceremony at the military academy this afternoon, with human rights leaders sitting in the front row just a few feet away from the military high command, Mr. Kirchner unveiled a plaque that promised "never again coups and state terrorism." In the speech that followed, he castigated the nation's armed forces for what he called their "criminal project" and "plan for extermination" during their rule from 1976 through 1983, but said that other groups were also to blame. "Sectors of society, the press, the church, the political class, also had their role," as did "powerful economic interests," President Kirshner said. "Not all of them have acknowledged their responsibility for those facts." The anniversary of what came to be known as the "Dirty War" against those thought to be subversives - including not just left-wing guerrillas, but also groups as diverse as union activists, long-haired university students and Jewish psychiatrists - has been accompanied by reminders that some of the problems of Argentina's past still linger. In the provincial city of Córdoba, which was a stronghold of death squads during the dictatorship, masked men broke into the home of a leader of the human rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo this week and, according to police reports, beat her and made clicking sounds as if holding a gun to her head. In addition, a small bomb went off Thursday at a Ford dealership here. The act carried political connotations because Ford supplied the car that became the hated symbol of repressive state security forces - the Falcon - and is being sued by a group of former employees who were labor leaders. They accuse the company of cooperating with state security in having them kidnapped from the plant floor and illegally detained. More ominously, it came to light this month that naval intelligence has continued spying on public officials, journalists and political leaders, including Mr. Kirchner, Minister of Defense Nilda Garré and at least one provincial governor. Two admirals, one of whom was the director of naval intelligence, have been fired and all naval intelligence activities have been suspended pending a complete investigation. That the navy was involved is especially relevant, since the Naval Mechanics School here was the most notorious of the hundreds of clandestine torture centers that existed in Argentina during the dictatorship. Two years ago, Mr. Kirchner announced that the school was to be made into a Museum of Memory, but the project has stalled because of disagreements among human rights groups about how best to accomplish that objective. On Wednesday, Ms. Garré also ordered that all official military archives from the period be opened. That step, which comes months after an amnesty law for human rights violators was overturned, is expected to help prosecutors when trials of former military officers charged with crimes such as kidnapping, murder and torture begin later this year. Simultaneously, the National Security Archive, a private research group based in Washington, has made public newly declassified United States government cables and transcripts relating to the coup. Documents indicate, for example, that when a deputy warned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger two days after the coup to "expect a fair amount of repression, probably a good deal of blood," Mr. Kissinger was unfazed and ordered American support for the new military junta. "I do want to encourage them," Mr. Kissinger said, according to the documents. "I don't want to give the sense that they're harassed by the United States." The papers released also include a Chilean intelligence report, passed on to the United States, that lists 22,000 names of people who had disappeared here by mid-1978 and were presumably executed. That is significant because an official commission here in the 1980's published a list with just over 9,000 names, far short of the 30,000 that human rights groups have long said were murdered during the seven years of the military dictatorship. The level of commemorations here has been much higher than 5 or 10 years ago, Argentines agree. That is largely due to Mr. Kirchner, a Perónist who, though accused recently of trying to manipulate the judiciary and the press, has made the defense of human rights and "recovering our historical memory" hallmarks of his administration. "For 30 years, human rights groups have gone to the streets shouting, and were accustomed to being repressed or at best ignored," said the director of the Center for Economic and Legal Studies, Horacio Verbitsky. "But now there is a government that says, 'Yes, and is there anything more?' So where is the enemy? That has produced a great deal of bewilderment." One faction of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, for example, has halted its weekly marches, arguing that there is no longer any need to protest human rights abuses. But another faction continues, and similar divisions were on display in the congressional debate about today's designation as a national holiday. Opposition parties, as expected, criticized the legislation because they argued that a policy of state terrorism began not with the military coup, but three years earlier, when Gen. Juan Perón and his wife, María Estela, returned to power. But even some leading human rights advocates expressed concerns that an official holiday would end up trivializing what is still a national trauma. "The 24th of March cannot be a festive day," Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a human rights worker who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts during the dictatorship, wrote recently. "It should serve so that a process of reflection and analysis on what happened in this country is undertaken in all workplaces, universities and schools," and anything else "does not serve memory." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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