Shocking testimonies of people who lived through the horror of torture, executions and death squads. Stories from prisons, torments and torturers throwing out of airplanes prisoners that were still alive are presented in the documentary “The List of Silence”. The documentary is directed by Nikos Vezyrgiannis and based on Pavlos Nerantzis’s research and screenplay. After a long research, tonight a world premiere of the documentary based on an issue, which still is an “open wound” for the world, will be presented at the Documentary Festival of Thessaloniki.
The Operation Condor which aimed to eradicate political opposition was supported by the Catholic Church and the CIA.
Thirty thousand are the desaparecidos, the missing from Videla´s junta in Argentina and among them there are Greeks and people of Greek origin. Voices of protest also on Greece’s attitude, the voice of a wife who lost her partner, of a brother who lost his sister, of a mother looking for the grandchild she’s never met, a fugitive who lives in the past and looks hopefully into the future of Argentina.
The List of Silence brings the names of the Greek origin desaparecidos to light and with them images from the past and the dreams of a whole generation which run the risk of forgetfulness.
Justice has just begun in Argentina, even though thirty years have passed from the fall of the Videla’s junta. By the end of 2009, 634 persons were accused for crimes against humanity in Buenos Aires. There were ten trials and 28 persons, militaries and torturers, were convicted. Trials against the leaders of the regime are still under process in Europe as well.
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