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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/17/jorge-rafael-videla-argentina-dies<snip>
Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest days of its "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, has died. He was 87.
The first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of leftists from 1976 to 1983, Videla spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes, including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centres.
He died of natural causes in his cell in a prison outside the capital, Buenos Aires, where he was serving a life sentence, a government spokesman said on Friday.
"He spent his life doing great damage, which left a mark on the life of the country," Argentinian human rights activist and Nobel prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel said. "His death ended his physical presence but
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)I would be sad if he were in his own bed.
malaise
(268,998 posts)of the rich and famous and only end up in prison in their old age. I guess this is better than nothing. I'd also like to see their enablers, financiers and allies overseas locked up. Kissinger is still walking around free.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Because for the most part, they seem untouchable. We on the other hand, feel all the pain.
malaise
(268,998 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that. But there are so many more of them who are still free, right here in this country.
malaise
(268,998 posts)Neo-liberalism was forced on most of the world with the blood of the left.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Now worm food, should have been hung like the criminal Fascist he was.
malaise
(268,998 posts)and there are lots of them in South and Central America
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Only fear keeps them from doing the same thing to the rest of us.
Some of us would take as many of them as we could along with us to Hell.
Die Like A Lion.
malaise
(268,998 posts)this planet