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Related: About this forumTruth Trial for the Napalp Massacre, Part of the Indigenous Genocide in Argentina
In 1924 hundreds of Qom and Moqoit Indians were murdered in Chaco. The massacre was silenced for decades, but it remained alive in the memory of the native peoples, who transformed it into a struggle and demand for justice. Federal courts confirmed a trial for the truth to determine those responsible and, centrally, the role of the state in the violation of rights.
March 8, 2022 by Pressenza
My mother shed tears every time she remembered that horror, but she made the effort to overcome it to seek historical reparation, says Sabino Yrigoyen, one of the 12 children born to Melitona Enriquez, one of the last survivors of the Napalpí Massacre. Melitona died in 2008 without knowing that, many years later, that effort to tell the story of the massacre in which much of her community was killed would bear fruit. At the beginning of the month, 13 years after her death and almost 100 years after the event, the Federal Court authorised a trial for the truth to bring historical and symbolic reparation to the original Argentinean peoples who were repressed, persecuted, hunted, murdered and denied. The fact was confirmed by the justice system as a crime against humanity.
Sabino continues to live in Chaco, and from there he speaks to Agencia Tierra Viva in light of the news that updates the struggle of his mother and the entire Qom and Moqoit community in the area: The head of Federal Court No. 1 of Resistencia, Zunilda Niremperger, authorised the processing of a trial for the truth about the crimes against humanity committed on 19 July 1924 and its subsequent days against members of the Qom and Moqoit peoples, who at the time were carrying out a strike in their clearing work to demand better working and living conditions. They were repressed and persecuted. Between 200 and 300 members of these communities were killed. Their bodies were burned or buried in mass graves. And the facts were distorted and denied by the national authorities.
Sixteen years ago, a civil trial began for the massacre, which was successful for the communities this March in the Resistencia Court of Appeals. It was a civil trial in which the national state denied its responsibility. However, in parallel, the provincial Prosecutors Office began to investigate the events from a criminal perspective in 2014, in a task led by its Human Rights Unit. In 2014 it initiated a formal investigation with the aim of clarifying the facts and, above all, to provide reparation to the community.
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The conflict was concentrated in the community of Napalpí, some 130 kilometres from the provincial capital, a concentrated area in the hands of the national state, which exploited the native hacheros in the worst possible way and savagely repressed them in the face of that protest. Between 200 and 300 men and women, old people, young people and children died as a result of the shooting with which 130 members of the National Territories Police and Gendarmerie attacked a community meeting for at least an hour, without stopping. Children, women and men were chased through the bush and hunted to death. Even a plane was used for intelligence work to determine how many and who were demanding improvements. The remains of the victims were disposed of in bonfires or mass graves.
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