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Court Rules Life Sentence for 15 Argentinians for Crimes during Dictatorship

teleSUR | October 25, 2014

An Argentine Federal court handed a life sentence to 15 out of 21 people accused of crimes against humanity during the last Argentine military dictatorship on Friday. Among the accused were soldiers, policemen, and former politicians.

The court also gave a sentence of between 12 and 13 years to four of the accused, and absolved one of them.

The 21 people were stood trial for their participation in the illegal detention center known as “La Cacha”. The judge ruled that they collaborated in the genocide that killed thousands of Argentinians.

They were also found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Laura Carlotto, daughter of Estela de Carlotto, founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. This movement searches for the disappeared babies that were taken away from their parents by the military during the dictatorship.

The proceedings began in December 2013, and ended with the reading of the verdict on Friday.The attendees, most of them human right activists, labeled the accused “murderers”.

Between 1976 and 1983, the Argentine dictatorship kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered some 30,000 people, most of them citizens and activists who opposed the military government. Up to now the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo have identified more than 110 of the disappeared children.

October 25, 2014 - Posted by | Subjugation - Torture, Timeless or most popular, War Crimes | ,

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