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Uruguayan general found guilty of junta's 1974 murder of communist
Source: Associated Press
Uruguayan general found guilty of junta's 1974 murder of communist
Associated Press in Buenos Aires
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 May 2013 21.36 BST
Uruguay has convicted a serving general for dictatorship-era human rights violations for the first time. General Miguel Dalmao was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of a communist professor.
His defence lawyer, Miguel Langon, told AP on Thursday that he had already appealed against the verdict, calling the evidence "invented" and saying his client was being blamed for the crimes of a bygone era.
"This is speculation, 40 years later," he said. "A criminal trial is completely different than a historical study. You have to have proof … These kinds of generalised statements can serve for a general analysis of the dictatorships of the Southern Cone (South America's southernmost countries – Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) … but against an individual? It just can't be."
Dalmao was a 23-year-old lieutenant in 1974, and was in charge of the jail where Nibia Sabalsagaray, a 24-year-old literature professor and communist activist, was taken from her Montevideo flat. Hours later, she was dead.
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Associated Press in Buenos Aires
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 May 2013 21.36 BST
Uruguay has convicted a serving general for dictatorship-era human rights violations for the first time. General Miguel Dalmao was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of a communist professor.
His defence lawyer, Miguel Langon, told AP on Thursday that he had already appealed against the verdict, calling the evidence "invented" and saying his client was being blamed for the crimes of a bygone era.
"This is speculation, 40 years later," he said. "A criminal trial is completely different than a historical study. You have to have proof … These kinds of generalised statements can serve for a general analysis of the dictatorships of the Southern Cone (South America's southernmost countries – Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) … but against an individual? It just can't be."
Dalmao was a 23-year-old lieutenant in 1974, and was in charge of the jail where Nibia Sabalsagaray, a 24-year-old literature professor and communist activist, was taken from her Montevideo flat. Hours later, she was dead.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/09/uruguay-general-convicted-activists-murder
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Here is a photo of the literature professor whom he tortured before murdering.
Apparently she was brilliant, as she became a literature professor at 17 years of age.
Her Wiki. in Spanish:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibia_Sabalsagaray
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Nibia Sabalsagaray
Street named in her memory:
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