Justice recognized the Napalpí massacre in Chaco as a crime against humanity

The oral trial for the truth about the so -called Napalpí Massacre ended on Thursday with a verdict in which federal judge Zunilda Niremperger ruled “as a proven fact that the National State is responsible for the crimes of aggravated murder and reduction in slavery as Crimes against humanity made in the framework of the process of genocide of indigenous peoples “.

They were also ordered a series of remedial measures this includes continuing the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in the area to limit the location of mass graves and establish a memorial site in the building that became the headquarters of the Napalpí Reduction administration.

At the Resistencia city’s Gala convention hall, Judge Niremperger read out the oral trial opinion for the Napalpí Massacre, as the execution of “more than 400 members of the Qom and Moqoit ethnic groups” by state forces and settlers since then. national territory of the Chaco on July 19, 1924.

Although the operative part of the sentence will be announced later, it is presumed that it has proved the national State responsible.

He also urged the National Congress to establish “July 19 as National Day of Commemoration of the Napalpí Massacre.”

In this way, the first trial for truth for crimes against humanity against an indigenous community of its kind in our country ends, an oral trial process that began on April 19 of this year, Day of the reaffirmation of rights of Indigenous Peoples and that It is accompanied by social organizations, indigenous communities and human rights.