Posted on 07/19/2003 6:52:29 AM PDT by knighthawk
Thousands of people in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires have commemorated the victims of the bombing of a Jewish cultural centre in 1994. Eighty-five people were killed in the attack and 300 others injured.
Speakers at the memorial service called on the authorities to find and punish those responsible for the attack. The lawyer acting for the surviving victims accused former presidents Carlos Menem and Eduardo Duhalde, as well as the secret service, of protecting those responsible and concealing evidence.
President Nestor Kirchner, who also attended the ceremony, said the fact that the perpetrators were never punished was a national disgrace. The Jewish community in Argentina numbers around 200,000 people. The Israeli and US authorities believe the radical Islamic Hezbollah movement was responsible for the attack.
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