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JORGE ZORREGUIETA and the DISPOSICIÓN FINAL: when will he show any remorse?

Posted in Dutch Royal House: 21st Century View, Nederlandse rechtsstaat, news-tableau, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

This is old news about a book by the Argentinian author Ceferino Reato who managed to interview the former Argentinian dictator Jorge Rafaela Videla in prison and for the first time having Videla speak about the real numbers of people killed by his regime in his vision (7 to 8 thousand persons). The book was published in Argentina a few months ago, but it merits special attention in the Netherlands because the Dutch Royal House has a family relation with one participant in the Videla regime. This relationship has been constantly half denied and underplayed. The policy of the Dutch Royal House and Dutch governments is one of low profile on this issue, in the hope it will be forgotten.

When I checked today  the Dutch library system I did not yet find a single copy in any Dutch public library (available or on order), including the Royal Library of the Netherlands. I will certainly write the last institution  about this omission! (*) “Disposición Final”(final disposal)  is the military jargon – of the Argentinian generals and government – for the murder of those that were seen as a danger to Argentinian society.

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Titulo: Dispocición Final (**)

Autor: Ceferino Reato

Editorial: Sudamericana

ISBN: 9789500738958

Publicado: 13/04/2012

Wondering if the Dutch/Argentinian Royals did read this book already, a book in which the former boss of the father of Princess Maxima Zorregieta – Jorge Rafael Videla (1925-) – confesses finally his involvement with thousands of disappeared people during his government, a government in which Jorge Zorrequieta (1928-) proudly was participating as Minister of Agriculture, but Dutch authorities have refused to start a formal inquiry on his involvement. The picture shows Jorge Zorreguieta during a baptising ceremony of one of his granddaughters. If only he would have been so sentimental when participating in the murderous Videla government…

Jorge Zorreguieta remained outside of prison but when, as said by some, his position was only marginal why did he not speak out about his association to a government that was described by an Argentinian judge – María Elba Martínez in December 2010 – as being the perpetrator of “state terrorism” (***)

Jorge Rafael Videla serving life time sentence in prison

Jorge Rafael Videla as President of Argentina with his Minsiter of Agriculture Jorge Zorreguieta during a state parade in the years of the Argentinian dictatorship. (****)

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(*) The Dutch Royal Library is the national library of the Netherlands and has its buildings in The Hague, the town that is proud to be “a world centre of human rights” with its international courts on government crimes and the Peace Palace.

(**) There is a GoogleBooks version of the book “Disposición Final” on the internet and a search fro Zorreguieta does not produce any hit, which does not mean that it is possible that a member of the Videla government of that time would have been totally ignorant of the “state terror” unleashed.

(***) Barrionuevo, Alexei (23 December 2010). “Argentina: Ex-Dictator Sentenced in Murders”. The New York Times 23 December 2010.

Yapp, Robin (22 December 2010). “Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla sentenced to life in prison”. The Telegraph (London)

(****) One of the many articles on attempts to persecute Jorge Zorreguieta also for his role in the Videla regime can be found in this article of the Argentinian newspaper Pagina|12 (9 September 2011)

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New Dutch conspiracy to reinstate the Insula Batavorum

Posted in Dutch politics, Dutch Royal House: 21st Century View, tagged , , , , , , , on July 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »

While most of the multi-cultural minded Dutch nation are happily on vacation a conspiracy is taking shape in all secrecy under the leadership of Batavian chieftain Beatrix Lubbers to join the cohorts of VVD, CDA and PVV into a force to reverse history and to isolate the Netherlands from the rest of the world by reinstating the mythical ‘ Insula Batavorum‘ *) of Roman times … “Down with the non Batavian Allochtoons” they shout when they cross their swords.

The Conspiration of the Bataves a painting of 1662 by Rembrandt van Rijn

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*) Source Wikipedia: “In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.[6] The mix of fancy and fact in the Cronyke van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vriesland (called the Divisiekronike), first published in 1517, brought the spare remarks in Tacitus’ newly-rediscovered Germania to a popular public; it was being reprinted as late as 1802.[7] Contemporary Dutch virtues of independence, fortitude and industry were rendered fully recognizable among the Batavians in more scholarly history represented in Hugo Grotius’ Liber de Antiquitate Republicae Batavicorum (1610). The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe’s Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (“Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands”, 1706), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital (now Jakarta) that was named Batavia. Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA. Echoes of this supposed cultural continuity may still be found in popularisations of the history that follows.”

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