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NICOLAS PENCHASZADEH
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Buenos Aires
ight years after a terrorist bomb
destroyed the Israeli Embassy
here, Argentine officials are again vow-
ing to find the perpetrators and bring
them to justice.
"This is an open'wound for all
Argentines," Argentine President
Fernando de la Rua said last week at a
ceremony marking the anniversary
and dedicating a public square where
the embassy once stood.
Outgoing Israeli Ambassador Itzhak
Aviran repeatedly has lashed out at
Argentina's failure to find those
responsible for either the 1992 Israeli
Embassy bombing or the 1994 bomb-
ing of the AMIA. Jewish center —
attacks that killed more than 100 peo-
ple and left hundreds of others
wounded.
"So much evidence disappeared,"
Aviran said during the ceremony.
"There were so many attempts to close
the case. I wonder if all of our efforts
have been in vain."
Aviran, who has charged that
Hezbollah operatives were behind
both the embassy and AMIA bomb-
ings, said the courts should investigate
local people who could have partici-
pated in the embassy attack, which he
attributed to antisemitism prevalent in
Argentine society.
After years of delay, Argentina
recently announced plans to try 20
people for the AMIA bombing.
There are no suspects or clues in
the embassy blast. Even the death toll
is in dispute, ranging from 22 to 40.
The new memorial park has a plaque
remembering 22 people, and there are
22 trees' planted nearby. In a statement
following the dedication, B'nai B'rith
International President Richard
Heideman, a former Detroiter, said
the park "will stand as a powerful
symbol to Jewish survival and
Argentine-Israeli relations."
Carlos Susevich, whose daughter
died in the embassy bombing, recited
Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead,
at the ceremony last week. He said,
"While the Kaddish is usually read to
honor our elders, this time it is for our
children, who are gone forever." [1]

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