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May 5, 2017

Argentina: Court Orders Shorter Sentences for Human Rights Abusers
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In Argentina, human rights groups are condemning a Supreme Court ruling
that could bring an early release to hundreds of people convicted for
human rights abuses during the U.S.-backed dirty wars of the 1970s and
'80s. This is Estela de Carlotto, president of the association of
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Estela de Carlotto: "For the people, the clear message is: This does not
affect those of us who have already been affected for 40 years; it
affects the children of the people, the grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of the people. What is not judged and condemned will
be repeated. And those who disagree that history will be repeated will
face what our children suffered: the 30,000 disappeared."

An estimated 30,000 activists were tortured and "disappeared" in the
late 1970s and early 1980s by Argentina's right-wing dictatorship.


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