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August 24, 2012

Ex-Argentine Dictator on Trial for Disappearances 
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Argentina’s last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, is facing a new trial
over the kidnappings and disappearances of political opponents and the
deliberate theft of babies from political prisoners. Bignone and two
other defendants are already serving jail sentences for other abuses
under Argentina's military regime. A lawyer for the group, Grandmothers
of the Plaza de Mayo, said the defendants presided over the
disappearances of thousands of people.

Mariano Gaitan: "In this area where the military epicenter was Campo de
Mayo, an estimated 5,000 comrades disappeared. Among them were many
women who were pregnant or who had young children that were kidnapped.
The Grandmothers are still looking for many of these children. They have
found some of them but the continue looking, and also searching for
justice for the death and disappearances deaths of these people."

It is believed the Argentine military dictatorship killed at least
30,000 Argentines during its rule from 1976 to 1983.

 

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