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With the intention of founding a space for
memory and reflection, the Fundación Memoria Histórica
y Social Argentina proposed in 1991 the creation of a
forest in commemoration of the victims of State
terrorism.
The landscape project was developed by the
Foundation and Memoria Abierta, Acción Coordinada de
Organismos de Derechos Humanos, and proposed in 2003
to the Secretary of Production, Tourism, and
Sustainable Development of the City Government of
Buenos Aires.
Finally, the Sub-secretary of the Environment,
through the Program of Participative Design, proposed
to destine six of the forty hectors corresponding to
the recuperation of the urban environment of the Indo-American
Park in the south of the City to the Walk of Human
Rights.
The design was agreed upon by neighbours and
consists of the creation of 20 small mountains with
twenty trees on each one as a tribute to different
groups of people that disappeared during the last
military dictatorship in Argentina.
The 20 mountains, a plaza of reflection and the
paths that connect each part comprise the Walk of
Human Rights: a space for community, a space for
tribute to the 30,000 disappeared.
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