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Argentina’s Milei vows justice in 1994 bombing of Jewish community center
Lucila Sigal and Kylie Madry
July 18, 2024

Argentina’s Jewish community on Thursday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the bombing of a community center that killed 85 people, with President Javier Milei promising to right decades of inaction and inconsistencies in the investigations into the attack. A bomb-filled van hit the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, the deadliest such incident in the South American nation’s history. “Today we chose to speak out, not stay silent,” Milei said in an address on Wednesday evening, ahead of a ceremony at the AMIA building on Thursday. “We’re raising our voice, not folding our arms. We choose life, because anything else is making a game out of death.” READ MORE

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