Florida businessman, 79, to face trial over notorious 1972 massacre in Argentina

[Judi Lynn]

Victims were among estimated 30,000 killed in nation’s ‘dirty war’, writes Andrew Buncombe

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Families have been fighting for justice for decades

(EPA)

A 79-year-old man who has been living in Florida for decades, is finally to go on trial over his alleged participation in the mass shooting of at least 19 people in Argentina 50 years ago.

Roberto Guillermo Bravo, a former officer in the Argentine navy and who later served as a diplomat in the US, is accused of involvement in what became known as the Trelew Massacre, a mass shooting of political prisoners in August 1972 while Argentina was ruled by a military-backed dictatorship.

For decades, the families of 16 people who were killed that day, along with those of three people who survived only to be later “disappeared”, struggled to obtain even the most basic information about what happened to their loved ones, some of the estimated 30,000 to lose their lives during what has been termed the nation’s “dirty war”.

But activists in the US, working in conjunction with some of those families, have now served papers against Mr Bravo, bringing a civil action rather than a criminal case, under the Torture Victim Protection Act.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/argentina-trelew-massacre-florida-bravo-b2013454.html



Roberto Guillermo Bravo

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1. My god..

When we say”the long arm of the law” n “no one is above the law”..we have this. It took decades for this.. maybe a lesson here.. geeez...I hope not that long for us.