Argentina passes law to hold annual memorial for 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing
Country's senate unanimously agrees to mark the car bombing 25-years-ago that killed 29 and injured hundreds.
The Argentina Senate passed a law for an annual memorial day remembering the 1992 terror attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires.
The law passed unanimously by the upper house of parliament on Wednesday also calls for a week of events surrounding the March 17 day of remembrance to raise awareness about the consequences of global terrorism.
The car bombing on that day 25 years ago killed 29 and injured hundreds. The building was destroyed.
The new law establishes the “Day of Memory and Solidarity with the Victims of the Attack against the Embassy of Israel.”
It calls for activities in schools throughout the country coordinated by the Ministry of Education “to raise awareness about the consequences of international terrorism and in favour of peace and nonviolence.”
“Twenty-five years after such a terrible attack it is an ethical and social responsibility, an imperative against oblivion and a commitment to unity against international terrorism,” the legislation says, adding that “schools are a central place for the development of memory and to avoid falling into oblivion. We understand that in a convulsive time like the one in which we live at the international level, in which we read daily news about terrorist acts in different parts of the globe, this project acquires a key role in the defence of life, community ties and human rights.”
In June 2011, the Argentina parliament unanimously ruled that the relatives of victims of the attack would receive compensation from the state. Under that law, the families received £166,000 $225,000 in the case of death, and £116,000 $158,000 for dramatic and severe injuries, for a total of £29M $40 million from the government.
Argentina also suffered a second terrorist attack, against the AMIA Jewish Centre in Buenos Aires, on July 18, 1994, which killed 85 and injured hundreds. The perpetrators of both crimes have never been caught.
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