All Entries in the "Dirty War & Dictatorship" Category
People’s court tries journalists who defended dictatorship
The Madres de Plaza de Mayo, a pressure group made up of mothers of those ‘disappeared’ during the military dictatorship, organised a symbolic trial in central Buenos Aires of journalists who justified the junta of 1976-83
Twenty five years for Argentina’s last dictator
Reynaldo Bignone, Argentina’s last de facto ruler, spent his first night in prison yesterday after being found guilty of crimes committed during the dictatorship. Bignone, 82, was the country’s last military ruler before the return to democracy in 1983. A Buenos Aires court found him guilty of human rights abuses committed in 1977 at the [...]
Argentina ‘death flights’ pilot to stand trial
An Argentine pilot suspected of flying “death flights” under that country’s former dictatorship has dropped his fight against extradition from Spain, agreeing to stand trial in Argentina.
Argentina’s veterans die of shame
Twenty-five years ago, Miguel Boyero was aboard the Argentinian warship the General Belgrano when it was sunk by torpedoes fired from a British submarine at the start of the Falkland Islands war. Boyero survived; 329 of his comrades died. Last month, Boyero hanged himself just days after the start of the war’s 25th anniversary commemorations. [...]
