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By Harris Mattson Impunity Watch Reporter, South America
A former member of the Argentine Navy Mechanics School went on trial today on charges that he infiltrated a human rights group and assisted in the abduction, torture, and execution of its members. Alfredo Astiz, known as the "blond Angel of Death", was a navy captain during a seven year Argentine military dictatorship in which the right wing government purged the country of leftist dissidents. It is estimated that the Navy Mechanics School was the site of at least 5,000 acts of torture in connection with Argentina’s "dirty war" against dissidents in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, a policy of suppression which is thought to have caused between 10,000 and 30,000 civilian deaths.
Astiz has been charged with the abduction and disappearance of two French nuns, Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, as well as investigative journalist Rodolfo Walsh and members of the human rights group "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo", a civic group which began protesting outside the Argentine presidential palace in 1976.
It is alleged that Astiz posed as the brother of a missing person and attended meetings of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo until he ascertained which members represented the greatest political threat and arranged their abduction. The prosecution has brought witnesses who claim that Leonie Duquet was detained at the Navy Mechanics School before being executed by "flight of death", a practice in which victims were pushed out of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean as a means of hiding corpses. Nearly 28 years later her remains were discovered and identified by Argentine forensic anthropologists.
Astiz denies his culpability on the grounds that he was acting as an agent of the national government in his role as a uniformed military officer. He denies knowledge of the flights of death, and asserts that he reasonably believed that he was acting under a policy to protect Argentina from leftist extremism.
11 December 2009 at 23:20 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
By Harris Mattson Impunity Watch Reporter, South America
A former member of the Argentine Navy Mechanics School went on trial today on charges that he infiltrated a human rights group and assisted in the abduction, torture, and execution of its members. Alfredo Astiz, known as the "blond Angel of Death", was a navy captain during a seven year Argentine military dictatorship in which the right wing government purged the country of leftist dissidents. It is estimated that the Navy Mechanics School was the site of at least 5,000 acts of torture in connection with Argentina’s "dirty war" against dissidents in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, a policy of suppression which is thought to have caused between 10,000 and 30,000 civilian deaths.
Astiz has been charged with the abduction and disappearance of two French nuns, Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, as well as investigative journalist Rodolfo Walsh and members of the human rights group "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo", a civic group which began protesting outside the Argentine presidential palace in 1976.
It is alleged that Astiz posed as the brother of a missing person and attended meetings of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo until he ascertained which members represented the greatest political threat and arranged their abduction. The prosecution has brought witnesses who claim that Leonie Duquet was detained at the Navy Mechanics School before being executed by "flight of death", a practice in which victims were pushed out of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean as a means of hiding corpses. Nearly 28 years later her remains were discovered and identified by Argentine forensic anthropologists.
Astiz denies his culpability on the grounds that he was acting as an agent of the national government in his role as a uniformed military officer. He denies knowledge of the flights of death, and asserts that he reasonably believed that he was acting under a policy to protect Argentina from leftist extremism.
11 December 2009 at 23:16 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
By Harris Mattson Impunity Watch Reporter, South America
Astiz has been charged with the abduction and disappearance of two French nuns, Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, as well as investigative journalist Rodolfo Walsh and members of the human rights group “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”, a civic group which began protesting outside the Argentine presidential palace in 1976.
It is alleged that Astiz posed as the brother of a missing person and attended meetings of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo until he ascertained which members represented the greatest political threat and arranged their abduction. The prosecution has brought witnesses who claim that Leonie Duquet was detained at the Navy Mechanics School before being executed by “flight of death”, a practice in which victims were pushed out of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean as a means of hiding corpses. Nearly 28 years later her remains were discovered and identified by Argentine forensic anthropologists.
Astiz denies his culpability on the grounds that he was acting as an agent of the national government in his role as a uniformed military officer. He denies knowledge of the flights of death, and asserts that he reasonably believed that he was acting under a policy to protect Argentina from leftist extremism.
11 December 2009 at 23:13 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
By Harris Mattson
Impunity Watch Reporter, South America
A former member of the Argentine Navy Mechanics School went on trial today on charges that he infiltrated a human rights group and assisted in the abduction, torture, and execution of its members. Alfredo Astiz, known as the “blond Angel of Death”, was a navy captain during a seven year Argentine military dictatorship in which the right wing government purged the country of leftist dissidents. It is estimated that the Navy Mechanics School was the site of at least 5,000 acts of torture in connection with Argentina’s “dirty war” against dissidents in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, a policy of suppression which is thought to have caused between 10,000 and 30,000 civilian deaths.
Astiz has been charged with the abduction and disappearance of two French nuns, Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, as well as investigative journalist Rodolfo Walsh and members of the human rights group “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”, a civic group which began protesting outside the Argentine presidential palace in 1976.
It is alleged that Astiz posed as the brother of a missing person and attended meetings of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo until he ascertained which members represented the greatest political threat and arranged their abduction. The prosecution has brought witnesses who claim that Leonie Duquet was detained at the Navy Mechanics School before being executed by “flight of death”, a practice in which victims were pushed out of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean as a means of hiding corpses. Nearly 28 years later her remains were discovered and identified by Argentine forensic anthropologists.
Astiz denies his culpability on the grounds that he was acting as an agent of the national government in his role as a uniformed military officer. He denies knowledge of the flights of death, and asserts that he reasonably believed that he was acting under a policy to protect Argentina from leftist extremism.
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