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Operation Condor conspiracy faces day of judgment in Argentina court
Source: The Guardian
Operation Condor conspiracy faces day of judgment in Argentina court
Eighteen former military officers accused of participating in a plan
in the 70s and 80s to operate international death squads to eliminate
leftwing exiles face verdict
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Thursday 26 May 2016 10.10 BST
It was an organised programme of state-sponsored murder in which US-backed regimes conspired to hunt down, kidnap and kill political opponents across South America and beyond.
Operation Condor – named after the world’s largest carrion bird – was devised to eliminate thousands of exiled leftwing activists who had dared confront the military dictators who ruled the continent in the 1970s and 80s.
The exact number of its victims may never be known, but this week judges in Buenos Aires will deliver their verdict on the first court case to specifically focus on the conspiracy.
Eighteen former military officers – including Argentina’s last dictator Reynaldo Bignone, 88 – will on Friday be sentenced on charges including kidnapping, torture and forced disappearance. Seven other defendants, including Jorge Videla – the general who headed Argentina’s junta during its bloodiest first three years – have died since the trial began in 2013.
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Eighteen former military officers accused of participating in a plan
in the 70s and 80s to operate international death squads to eliminate
leftwing exiles face verdict
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Thursday 26 May 2016 10.10 BST
It was an organised programme of state-sponsored murder in which US-backed regimes conspired to hunt down, kidnap and kill political opponents across South America and beyond.
Operation Condor – named after the world’s largest carrion bird – was devised to eliminate thousands of exiled leftwing activists who had dared confront the military dictators who ruled the continent in the 1970s and 80s.
The exact number of its victims may never be known, but this week judges in Buenos Aires will deliver their verdict on the first court case to specifically focus on the conspiracy.
Eighteen former military officers – including Argentina’s last dictator Reynaldo Bignone, 88 – will on Friday be sentenced on charges including kidnapping, torture and forced disappearance. Seven other defendants, including Jorge Videla – the general who headed Argentina’s junta during its bloodiest first three years – have died since the trial began in 2013.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/operation-condor-trial-argentina-court-death-squads
