Analisis De La Noche De Los lápices Caídos

The Night of the Pencil

The night of the pencil happened in September 17 on 1976, security guards of the government started an operative that lasted a couple of days for students mass arrests in the city La Plata. This is a case of homo Sacer is the possibility that any one kills a person without being liable legally or annihilating punishment for such action. This success was one of the most significant in the repression imposed by the civil-military dictatorship Argentina, since the missing were students, mostly children, who were tortured before being killed.

The students were part of a group called “La union de Estudiantes Secundarios (UES)”, they demanded the discounted bus ticket for secondary student. A survivor called Pablo Díaz said that the reason of their abduction was to identify who were part of the movement, because they though they were potential rebels. The number of the victims was around 30.000 missing.

Another survivor called Emilce Moler tells that she was abducted when she was 17 years old, she tells that all the abducted students were taken to a clandestine center, the were in inhuman conditions and were torture with sadism. One day they were taken in a big truck to another place but those who are still missing were taken apart and were never seen again. Then to the survivors they "bleached them ", that means, to enter it formally detained in a prison. After two years they were released from prison under a scheme called "Probation" and had to move from “La Plata” elsewhere.

This is only one case of Homo Sacer, a prove of what dozen of people had to go through only because they didn’t think like the government. Is incredible how they treated humans like not significant things, some of them were even teenagers between 13 and 19 years old that had family, and most of them were never seem again since the day they were taken. The survivor Moler said “Éramos vistos como peligrosos por nuestras ideas", only because they believed in the right of having that discount in the bus ticket, they didn’t deserved to be tortured, their families didn’t deserved to lose their child. This represent a case of homo sacer because they weren’t protected legally by the law, they weren’t treated as humans, families didn’t knew what happened with their kids and some of them are still missing, there was never an answer of what happened in those years.

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