ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture and Extermination

ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture and Extermination skrevs in på UNESCO:s världsarvslista 2023 som kulturarv i Argentina. Platsen hör till regionen Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Världsarvet har varit en del av den gemensamma UNESCO-listan sedan 2023.

UNESCOThis property is located within the complex of the Former Navy School of Mechanics in Buenos Aires, in the former Officers’ Quarters. This was the Argentine Navy’s principal secret detention centre during the civil-military dictatorship of 1976-1983. As part of a national strategy to destroy armed and nonviolent opposition to the military regime, the Officers' Quarters building at ESMA (Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada) was used for holding captive opponents who had been abducted in Buenos Aires and interrogating, torturing and eventually killing them.