Museum director and former National Heritage Minister Michelle Bachelet government, Rommy Schmidt stressed the importance for the opening of this center not only as historical evidence but because “we become a reference in the field of human rights.”

“We want to contribute to the study, research, assessment and discussion of this issue so important that incredibly, is unknown in all Chileans,” stressed the official, in Speaking to news agency ANSA.

Schmidt played down the absence of government officials Sebastian Pinera, the Parliament and the Judiciary, and reaffirmed that “the Museum is for citizenship and it is she who knows, values and make the necessary reflection on the protection of democracy, so that never again horrors, such as showing the museum happen again. “

public policy on human rights, the former minister said they were working hard in the field of education, “because we feel that despite the Ministry”s curriculum includes mandatory human rights, lack educational materials, lack the ability to do a more experiential of human history and not pass through the ideological bias of individual teachers.

Ana Gonzalez, who was the first president of the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees, defined the Museum as “a testimony to all men, women, children, youth, come to learn, to soak up what happened during the dictatorship: the tragic and horrific all that was and whose consequences are still living.”

Speaking to ANSA, said that although the Museum “is witnesbdbs to the barbarity of man, so is the beauty of the great values that human beings have.”

He added that the latter is an incentive not only to the families of the victims but also for all the people, “who was so overwhelmed and that is recovered in the massive struggle for the return of democracy.” (Telam) dc-jab28/04/2010 17:52