Buenos Aires begins largest trial of crimes against humanity in Argentina

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Around 30,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and killed during Argentina’s Dirty War from 1976 to 1983.
Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:1AM GMT
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[The trial in Buenos Aires] was, is and will be the largest trial of crimes against humanity [in Argentina]. "

Human rights attorney Rodolfo Yanzon

A court in Argentina has begun a large trial of the so-called Dirty War crimes that were committed during the country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.


The trial of 68 former officials, who are facing some 800 charges of kidnap, torture and murder associated with an elite naval college, began on Wednesday in the capital Buenos Aires, AFP reported.

During the seven-year junta period, almost 5,000 people were sent to the infamous Naval School of Mechanics (ESMA), which served as a secret detention camp in Buenos Aires. Only a fraction survived the camp’s horrors, and most of the bodies of those who perished have never been recovered. Other victims were sedated, put on airplanes and tossed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Julio Poch, a Dutch national and a former Argentine naval aviator extradited from Spain in May 2010, is among the eight pilots of those “death flights” who will face justice for the first time.

The trial "was, is and will be the largest trial of crimes against humanity" in Argentina, said rights attorney Rodolfo Yanzon.

Pro-junta civilians will also be put on trial, including former Finance Minister Juan Alemann, who allegedly witnessed the torture of a man suspected of attempting to murder him.

“The fact that civilians will be tried is very important," said Silvina Stirnemann, a spokeswoman for HIJOS-Paris, a French organization that seeks justice for the victims of Argentina’s notorious military junta.

“The judiciary is begging to look beyond the army. Without civilian accomplices the dictatorship’s repression could not have reached such magnitude,” Stirnemann added.

The trial seeks to shed light on one of the most painful and violent chapters in Argentina’s so-called Dirty War of 1976-83, during which 30,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and killed, according to rights groups.

The trial is expected to last up to two years.
Source http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/29/275125/argentina-begins-dirty-war-crimes-trial/

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