ISRAEL: ARGENTINA'S DISAPPEARED JEWS PLEA FOR HELP

Описание: (31 May 2000) Hebrew/Eng/Nat

Relatives of the so-called "disappeared" Jews in Argentina are calling on the Israeli government to help bring justice.

The Association of Relatives of Disappeared Jews want the Israeli government to put pressure on Buenos Aires to reveal what happened to their loved ones.

Representatives of the group have personally taken their plea to the Israeli parliament.

Representatives from the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Jews from Argentina took their message to the Israeli parliament on Tuesday.

And they were greeted by supporters who gathered at the Knesset with banners and placards demanding the Israeli government put pressure on Argentina to reveal what happened to their dead relatives.

One of the protesters Efraim Zadoff said he wanted information and the return of the bodies of Jews who disappeared during Argentina's "dirty war."

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We ask the government to put pressure on the Argentinian government to give information and to return the bodies of the disappeared people, the killed people, the Jewish disappeared to give them Jewish sepulture and also to know about the 18 children that have been born in captivity during the repression and they have been stolen from their families."
SUPER CAPTION: Efraim Zadoff, Representative in Israel of the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Jews in Argentina

Pedro Creplak, an Argentinian, said he was beaten and insulted by the Argentinian secret police.

He said it was because he was Jewish.

He remembers the police throwing him into the street.

He has never seen his son again.

SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
"One day, the secret services entered my house in Argentina, they kidnapped him, kidnapped me, I got beaten, they insulted me because I am Jewish and they threw me away in the middle of the road, but I never saw me son again."
SUPER CAPTION: Pedro Creplak, Father of Disappeared Men

Gregorio Dupon, the Argentinian Ambassador to Israel, said it was very important to know the truth.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The courts in Argentina have said that the right to know the truth means that to know what happened to the missing people goes beyond other laws that might have pardoned, or in the case of the law of obedience, by such law, only the one who gave the orders is guilty, and not the one who executed it. But, beyond those laws, cast in very difficult times, the right to know the truth is a very important thing."
SUPER CAPTION: Gregorio Dupon, Argentinian Ambassador to Israel

The missing Jews were amongst 30-thousand people who vanished between 1976 and 1983, when the military junta which then ruled Argentina hunted down all those who opposed its regime.

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