30 years later, a ‘push for justice’ over Argentina’s Jewish center bombing

On July 18, 1994, a van loaded with explosives crashed into a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The blast killed 85 people at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and wounded over 300. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history.

Today, 30 years later, Argentinians will gather in their capital — as they have on almost every anniversary — to remember the victims, and demand justice.

“There is a big push for justice, which, as years go by, is like a deafening silence,” said journalist and author Javier Sinay, whose great-grandfather founded the first Yiddish newspaper in Buenos Aires.

Sinay is the author of the book “Después de las 9:53” (“After 9:53”) published by Penguin Random House in Argentina on July 1.

The title refers to the time of the attack and the book focuses on the first 30 days of the investigation, as well as the impact of those days over the next three decades.

“I focused a lot on the first month because I consider it to be a scale model of everything that comes later,” he said.

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