Argentine activists take torture center

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Argentine activists take torture center
Thu Jan 31, 10:36 PM ET

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who launched a human rights crusade in the late 70s against a bloody dictatorship, took control of a building at a former naval academy that was the junta's chief torture center.
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The government announced in 2004 that the Navy Mechanics' School would be removed from military control and become a museum and monument honoring the victims of the 1976-83 military regime. The last officers left the campus late last year.

Nearly 13,000 people were killed or disappeared during the dictatorship's crackdown on dissent, according to an official tally. Activists say the toll is closer to 30,000.

Bonafini noted that children of some the Mothers were among the 5,000 dissidents detained at the clandestine torture center, where they were tortured and, in some cases, made to disappear.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_dirty_war;_ylt=AnAFSrS2rAmRdhYbq00IAAxvaA8F

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Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war'


Declassified US files expose 1970s backing for junta

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Saturday December 6, 2003
The Guardian


Henry Kissinger gave his approval to the "dirty war" in Argentina in the 1970s in which up to 30,000 people were killed, according to newly declassified US state department documents.
Mr Kissinger, who was America's secretary of state, is shown to have urged the Argentinian military regime to act before the US Congress resumed session, and told it that Washington would not cause it "unnecessary difficulties".

The revelations are likely to further damage Mr Kissinger's reputation. He has already been implicated in war crimes committed during his term in office, notably in connection with the 1973 Chilean coup.

The material, obtained by the Washington-based National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act, consists of two memorandums of conversations that took place in October 1976 with the visiting Argentinian foreign minister, Admiral César Augusto Guzzetti. At the time the US Congress, concerned about allegations of widespread human rights abuses, was poised to approve sanctions against the military regime.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1101061,00.html

[High Plains]

1. A friend drove me by that place when I was there a couple years ago.

Really creeped me out.

Kissinger has corpses in his mouth.