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The San Patricio Church massacre was the murder of three priests and two seminarians of the Pallottine order on July 4, 1976, during the Dirty War, at St. Patrick’s Church, located in the Belgrano neighborhood in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The victims were priests Alfredo Leaden, Alfredo Kelly, and Pedro Duffau and seminarians Salvador Barbeito and Emilio Barletti. == The crime == At approximately 1:00 a.m. on , three youths, Luis Pinasco, Guillermo Silva, and Julio Víctor Martínez, watched as two cars parked in front of the church of San Patricio. As Martínez was the son of a soldier and thought it might be an attempt on his father, he went to Police Station No. 37 to make a complaint. Minutes later a police car arrived on the scene and officer Miguel Ángel Romano spoke with people who were suspects in the case. At 2 o'clock in the morning Silva and Pinasco saw a group of people with rifles get out of the cars and enter the church. The next morning, at the time of the first Mass, a group of worshippers waiting in front of the church found the door closed. Surprised by the situation, the young Fernando Savino, organist of the parish decided to enter through a window and found on the first floor the bodies of the five religious riddled with bullets, and lined up face down in a huge puddle of blood on a red carpet. The murderers had written with chalk on a door: They also wrote on a carpet: The initials “M.S.T.M.” stand for (the Movement of Priests for the Third World), while the first sentence about “Federal Security” refers to the bomb attack the Montoneros (whose motto was ''“Venceremos”'' ) had set off two days before in the dining room of the Argentine Federal Police headquarters, killing 20 people.〔 (Google translation )〕 On the body of Salvador Barbeito the murderers put a drawing by Quino, taken from one of the rooms, in which Mafalda appears pointing to a police officer’s club saying: (“This is the stick to dent ideologies”).〔 (Google translation )〕 The next day, the newspaper ''La Nación'' published a story about the slaughter which included the text of a communiqué from Area Command I of the Army that read: Testimony before the CONADEP Commission in 1984 indicated that the San Patricio Church murders were carried by the military on the orders of Rear Admiral Ruben Chamorro, head of ESMA.〔Patricia Marchak, (''God's Assassins: State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s'' ), McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, ISBN 0773520139; p. 160〕〔Martin Edwin Andersen, ''Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War"'', Westview Press, 1993, ISBN 0813382122; pp. 187-188〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「San Patricio Church massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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