Before the military dictatorship, the Golden Room was the ceremonial hall used by Navy officers. In 1976, they started using it to plan the kidnappings.
According to the survivors’ testimony, the Clandestine Center received prisoners through an endless circuit that began with kidnapping, continued with torture, imprisonment and ended with the ‘transfer’. The Golden Room was the basis of the bureaucratic structure where information was processed.
The tour of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory ends with this screening, which shows that more than 40 years after the civic-military coup, those responsible for the crimes are still being tried in court. The trials for crimes against humanity represent a success in the fight of human rights organizations, and they are a state policy for which Argentina earned global recognition.