Death jolts Argentine baby trial

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 21:27 GMT

Death jolts Argentine baby trial
By Daniel Schweimler
BBC News, Buenos Aires

A key witness in a trial in Argentina about the fate
of babies stolen from political prisoners during the
"Dirty War" has been found dead.

Police are investigating whether the former army
officer, Lt Col Paul Navone, killed himself.

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There was a single bullet wound to his head and a
handgun was found nearby.

He had been due to testify about what happened
to twins born to a political dissident, Raquel Negro,
during military rule in Argentina between 1976 and
1983.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7266001.stm

[Judi Lynn]

1. My God! Well, it's a very ugly secret they've been trying to keep, isn't it? Among so MANY.

May the current government NOT STOP until every single damned one of these long-kept evil deeds against the people of Argentina by the right-wing coup, nurtured and encouraged by Henry Kissinger, killing THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE for political purposes alone, is illuminated, put on public display for the entire world to see.

The tawdry, ugly, viciousness of that regime apparently is still alive if people are so desperate to keep it all under wraps still. It wasn't really all that long ago, in the scheme of things.

Here is the mother's photo:



Raquel Negro

Here's a very clumsy google computer translation of a page which concerns the mother:

Missing the 2/1/78

I was 6 months pregnant

Raquel had been married to Marcellin Alvarez, who had disappeared in 1976. She had a child of 12 years, Sebastian.

His current partner was Edgar Valenzuela, a chief montonero, who expecting a baby.

On January 2, 1978, Rachel, Sebastian and Edgar were abducted in the center of Mar del Plata. The same day they were taken to the RCD "La Quinta" Funes, in the vicinity of Rosario, Santa Fe, where he was secretly arrested almost the entire dome regional Montoneros.

General Galtieri, who was then head of the area, devised a scheme whereby Valenzuela and another member of Montoneros would go to Mexico to draw heads montoneros refugees there, that the Argentine military wanted to kidnap. Valenzuela agreed and departed for Mexico, leaving Rachel and Sebastian hostage. Once in Mexico denounced the plan to his fellow montoneros, knowing that this would mean the death of Rachel and possibly Sebastian.

Sebastian was returned at some point to their grandparents, but Rachel continued disappeared. According to testimony she gave birth to twins in March 1978. The babies were delivered to a military family. The fate of Rachel is unknown.

John Daniel Amelong participated in its demise.



MARCELINO ALVAREZ TO BLACK AND RAQUEL

From FAK

They were brought
Tortured, l you deleted, finally flew
On the flight revived without ever die
Not even succeeded for a while, that the sea escondiera
We breathe the air and
Earth, harvest, memory in the water we drink
Road, fire, hands, scarves and handkerchiefs
So are the alpha, letters, words that have not yet told
And Omega
The smiles of the children who concealed, of all the children
Also for the children of them
Tears ... the cry of scoring from all swollen
CRISTOS God as their names inhabiting
Love for more than atheist
Punishment eternal leading to the latrine they tap
Hell, the dead live tetricos who wanted them
Disappear in the same act were born

Marcelino and Raquel, Galician and Coca, Paul and Mary, are, and forever, two militants missing from the city of Santa Fe with both dedication and fortitude gave testimony of LOVE largest, gave their lives for their brothers. This small tribute is to remember them and all those who were born forever like them.

Francisco Klaric

http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/victimas/n/negror/

Another article, also submitted to the google translation tool:

28-11-2007 07:30

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NO HAIR ON THE TONGUE
A former repressor described how stole babies born in Paraná
He said Constanzoy withdrew insulted by human rights activists. On Friday, Trimarco.

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Faced with the federal judge Myriam Galizzi, former repressor Eduardo Tucu Constanzo yesterday gave details of the clandestine birth of babies at the hospital Military Parana and its subsequent appropriation, in the case of children timely twins Rachel Black, which is being investigated at this jurisdiction.

For about three hours, the testimony in the federal courts in the capital Entre meant a confirmation of what has already been reported by the witness in the case against former repressor Pascual Guerrieri, which has been detained by imprisonment home in Rosario.

For the complainants, the names and data provided by Constanzo permit and citation charging other perpetrators, and to advance the investigation of what happened to the children of militants Montoneros Rachel Black and Tucho Valenzuela. One of the boys, the man would be stillborn or died within a few days, while the other, a girl, it would have been left by two repressors in a convent Rosario. This couple now has 29 years but his identity continues replaced and could not be traced by his real family.

For Friday, at 8.30, it is expected the statement questioning of Juan Carlos Ricardo Trimarco, the first controller of Entre Rios after the coup of 1976, a former commander of the Second Armored Cavalry Brigade based in Parana, and former commander of II Corps based in Rosario and jurisdiction in Entre Rios. The judge has yet to rule on the request for the lawsuit that Trimarco declared as a detainee to avoid dilatory and evasive as it could be claiming health problems.

HIDDEN

Constanzo ex-army intelligence officer, was transferred from Rosary in the early hours of yesterday, in a vehicle of the Federal Prison Service. Although the statement was expected to be 8.30, arrived in the federal courts and before 7:30 remained inside the building street May 25 until 1220.

Upon leaving, agents of the Federal Police and the Prison Service covered to prevent what could be photographed by reporters or seen by the handful of activists from human rights organizations who did guard in the street. They also heard: "Murderer!", "Torturador!", "Son of a bitch!".

Faced with the judge and lawyers Galizzi complainants Navy Barbagelata and Gamal Taleb, former repressor reiterated what had been said about the case in his statement questioning for the sake Guerrieri, but on this occasion provided a number of details that "gives a lot of credibility to content That statement and confirm that everything that claimed at the time the coordinator of the Single Register for Truth, Guillermo German, "said Barbagelata.

THE WITNESS

Constanzo confirmed that Rachel Black was arrested in secret detention centre Quinta de Funes, on the outskirts of Rosario, and from there or from La Calamita said not remember the well-travelled a task force to the Military Hospital of Parana, an estimated in July 1978. In that custodiaron military rosarinos the hospital and remained for several days until they gave birth.

He was then returned to the secret detention centre The Intermediate on Highway Rosario-Santa Fe, where he arrived dead in the trunk of a car, tied up, naked and with a plastic bag over the head. His body was then dumped in the sea, Constanzo told yesterday.

The attorneys also stressed that has identified people who organized and participated in the operational transfer of Rachel Black, under the command of Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Luciano Jauregui, highest authorities of the II Corps during those years.

From this, one intends to seek further testimony or probably also new charges in this case. Two that are being targeted are Walter Pagano, a former civilian intelligence agent of the Army, and retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Amelong. They were, according to the story of Constanzo, who left the Black daughter at the door of a convent or orphanage Rosario.

In his statement yesterday, former repressor that scene confirmed that the surrender of the girl was the one that told itself Pagano. Both Amelong as this could be charged as co-authors of the crimes of theft of twins and the replacement of their identity. Both are detained in Rosario for other crimes against humanity.

Pagano was also one of those who kept Rachel Black while being detained at the Quinta de Funes and even during their stay in the hospital Military Parana.

Moreover, Constanzo said that the baby boy was born dead. However, this is inconsistent with what has already declared witnesses who worked at a private clinic maternity Parana, which joined the Army two newborn twins from the Military Hospital on dates coinciding with the birth of Black. From this arise, in reality, the dead man was not born but with serious health problems that could not have been overcome.

TUCU IS CONSIDERED THE UN CHIVO EXPIATORIO "

Navy Barbagelata, one of the plaintiffs lawyers in the case Military Hospital, told the impression that caused Eduardo Constanzo. "He is convinced that he is making a contribution. Considers that responsibility if it existed, was partial, he is not the most committed and that the Justice is not acting as he expected: namely, that it was going to respond differently on the names he gave on people more involved in these crimes, "said the lawyer.

"He defines himself as a scapegoat and I think it has the same bitterness of someone who has been abandoned to their fate," added Gamal Taleb, the other plaintiff lawyer.

Constanzo is being held under home detention, given that exceeds 70 years. He has acknowledged his participation in the Army between 1977 and 1978 and involvement in clandestine detention centres in the area of Rosario: Quinta de Funes, La Calamita and The Intermediate.


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