Ex-minister questioned on abductions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

Ex-minister questioned on abductions


Published: Feb. 20, 2008 at 12:38 AM

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A former Argentine interior minister was detained for questioning Tuesday about his alleged ties to two abductions during the country's former dictatorship.

Albano Harguindeguy was taken from his home and questioned before a judge. He was put under house arrest, La Nacion reported online Tuesday.

Harguindeguy was questioned about two kidnappings that supposedly took place during Argentina's so-called Dirty War (1976-1983) when about 30,000 allegedly were killed or disappeared on orders of military leaders.

Argentina has been cracking down on former "Dirty War: leaders in recent years, rescinding a previous law that gave former heads of government and the military immunity from prosecution.


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[Judi Lynn]

1. Argentine woman accuses adop parents of kidnapping in Dirty War adoption

Argentine woman accuses adop parents of kidnapping in Dirty War adoption

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A 30-year-old woman is suing her adoptive parents for kidnapping in a case that opened in an Argentine court Tuesday, becoming the first child of disappeared political prisoners to press such charges.
Maria Eugenia Sampallo Barragan accused her adoptive parents Osvaldo Rivas and Maria Cristina Gomez Pinto of falsifying
adoption documents to hide her identity. She made no comments on leaving court Tuesday.

Thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by security forces during Argentina's 1976-1983 military regime, and human rights groups say more than 200 their children were taken and given to military or politically connected families to raise.

Sampallo, who in 2001 learned that she is the daughter of missing political prisoners Mirta Mable Barragan and Leonardo Ruben Sampallo, is one of 88 young people who determined their identity with DNA tests coordinated by the human rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Sampallo's mother was six months pregnant when she and her father were abducted on Dec. 6, 1977, said Sampallo's lawyer, Tomas Ojea Quentin. He said Sampallo was born in February 1978, while her mother was being held at a clandestine torture center.

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