Ford Argentina ex-executives sentenced in torture cases

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Ford Argentina ex-executives sentenced in torture cases

Associated Press
December 11, 2018

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court in Argentina has sentenced two former Ford Motor Co. executives to prison for crimes against humanity committed against Argentine union workers during the country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

The court said Tuesday that factory manufacturing director Pedro Muller and security manager Hector Francisco Sibilla targeted workers and gave information to security agents for their kidnapping and torture after the 1976 military coup.

Muller was sentenced to 10 years and Sibilla to 12 years.

They were accused of giving names, ID numbers, pictures and home addresses to security forces who hauled more than two dozen union workers off the floor of Ford’s factory in suburban Buenos Aires to be tortured and interrogated and then sent to military prisons.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. It's worthwhile to take a look at the photos of some employees who were tortured,

terrorized, abused, reviled by the Dirty War death machine, and a good look at some of the pieces of reeking filth who wanted the right-wing dictatorship to destroy these men. The effect on the spirits of the victims lived on to torment them throughout their lives, as is apparent on their faces, after being shown there are such malignant, evil people in the world who meant to harm them, to break them, to destroy them because of their support of their fellow workers.

Look at the faces at the link: the broken men and their loved ones who've lived with them in their grief, dispair, recurring nightmares, and the Ford executives and their slick, nasty lawyers.

No good person could ever feel sympathy for the fascists, past or present.

Hope in some way, seeing their tormenters finally face legal, public rebuke will help these humble men close the book on the sins incurred by their overlords, and they can feel freer. Can only hope.

The executives need to be confronted, with no escape, by their consciences, by the blazing light of the truth, with no where to hide.