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November 30, 2017

Argentine Court Convicts Former Military Officials Over "Dirty Wars" Crimes
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And in Argentina, a federal court in Buenos Aires sentenced 29 former
members of the U.S.-backed military junta to life imprisonment on
Wednesday, over their roles in carrying out murders during the
dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. Among those sentenced were two former
military pilots who led so-called "death flights" in which activists and
dissidents were thrown from an airplane into the South Atlantic. The
ruling was welcomed by members of the group Mothers of the Plaza de
Mayo, who rallied near the courthouse in Buenos Aires. This is Taty
Almeida, who's spent the last 40 years searching for her daughter, who
was abducted by the Argentine dictatorship in 1976.

Taty Almeida: "We are agree that these trials should move forward, in
spite of how this government wants to continue putting sticks in the
spokes of the wheels of justice. But to hear 'life in prison,' for
example, for two of the pilots of the death flights, creates a mix of
emotions, which are interwoven. I don't know if the word is 'happiness,'
but yes-we are celebrating that this is happening."



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