Sacred Source of Legitimation of the Malvinas War Heroes

Sacred Source of Legitimation of the Malvinas War Heroes

“…The administration was based on the systematic violation of human rights, and the repression mainly involved the detention of thousands of people in clandestine detention centers. Prisoners were subjected to interrogation and torture; the vast majority was later murdered and their bodies disappeared 5 . Similarly, the dictatorship imposed silence about the war after its defeat and Argentine society 1 In this work, we refer to this episode as the Malvinas War (not the Falkland Islands War) since the relatives of the fallen Argentines refer to in this way.…”

“…These soldiers are buried in private cemeteries. 5 For an in-depth examination on the question of death in the case of the desaparecidos, see Catela (2001) and Panizo (2011). came to identify both the war and the islands with the military government, producing an anti-Malvinas sentiment in the war's aftermath.…”

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“…These soldiers are buried in private cemeteries. 5 For an in-depth examination on the question of death in the case of the desaparecidos, see Catela (2001) and Panizo (2011). came to identify both the war and the islands with the military government, producing an anti-Malvinas sentiment in the war's aftermath. 1 In this regard, the Argentine government was blamed not only for the torture and death of thousands of desaparecidos, but also for the death of the young fallen soldiers; as in the case of the disappeared, the dictatorship provided no information on the whereabouts or the cause of death of the young men who lost their lives during the war 6 .…”