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Argentina Court Revokes Dirty War Amnesty - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 10th Mar, 2013 - 3:28am
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Argentina Court Revokes Dirty War Amnesty
I cannot express how HAPPY I am with this veredict. It touches me closely since my birth mother is one of the 30,000 people missing in Argentina during the 70's in the so called "Dirty War".
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that laws granting amnesty for atrocities committed during the so-called Dirty War are unconstitutional, opening the possibility that hundreds of people could be brought back to court.
Human rights groups say up to 30,000 people disappeared during Argentina's 1976-83 military rule in a crackdown on leftist dissidents.
In a 7-1 vote, with one abstention, the Supreme Court struck down laws passed in 1986 forbidding charges involved in the disappearances, torture and other crimes, a court spokesman told The Associated Press...
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050614/ap_on_...na_human_rights 
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| That does seem to be good news. I certainly hope that they can find some of the people who disappeared. |
They did, sadly my mother is not one of them.
Here is the story of a survivor, after going through abuse and torture. May God grant peace to the families of these people who have been missing for 30 years:
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| Argentine Torture Survivor Patricia Isasa Returns to Police Station Where She Was Imprisoned and Abused Patricia Isasa was 16 years old in 1976 when she was kidnapped by Argentine police and soldiers. She was tortured and held prisoner without trial for two and a half years. Before she joins thousands heading to Fort Benning, Georgia to protest what used to be called the School of the Americas, Isasa joins us in our firehouse studio to tell her story and of her lifelong campaign to bring her torturers to justice. |
https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1451253
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Amnesty War Dirty Revokes Court Argentina
The Argentina Supreme Court today announced that two other men who were pardoned must now be brought to justice as their pardon was unconstitutional.
| Rather off topic, but... LDS_forever - you may want to check on that with a follow-up news article. |
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Amnesty War Dirty Revokes Court Argentina
I am so glad to hear this. Hopefully justice will be served. From our own English newspaper, the Buenos Aires Herald:
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| The two - under house arrest on baby theft - were leading members of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship that killed or made to disappear up to 30,000 people. Sentenced to life in 1985 following the return to democracy, they were granted pardons five years later by then president Carlos Menem, who freed them from a military prison in what he called "a gesture of national reconciliation." Yesterday's ruling by the Buenos Aires City Federal Appeals Court ruled the pardons unconstitutional. It is likely to be appealed. The pardons had also benefited convicted military chiefs Orlando Agosti, Roberto Viola and Armando Lambruschini, who have since died. Videla was found guilty of 66 homicides, the torture of 93 other people and the illegal confinement of more than 300. Massera was convicted of three murders, the torture of 12 people and the illegal confinement of 69 dissidents. Menem's decrees - which he said would ""close a sad and black chapter of Argentine history"" - prompted widespread protests at the time. The federal appeals court yesterday said that those decrees clash with international treaties whereby Argentina must investigate and punish human rights abuses. President Nestor Kirchner's government has reopened hundreds of human rights cases since a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that struck down 1980s laws granting blanket amnesty to people involved in repression.... |
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