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...steady, almost monotonous voice, Court President Leon Carlos Arslanian read a summary of the justices' 2,000-page decision. He and his brethren, he explained, had studied the country's criminal code and all the legal depositions presented to them. They had consulted international law specialists and considered the theories of conventional and revolutionary warfare, as well as the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. But, said Arslanian, "we have not found one single rule that justifies, much less excuses, the authors of facts that have been brought before this trial...
With that, Arslanian pronounced Jorge Rafael Videla, 60, President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, and his navy commander, Admiral Emilio Massera, 60, guilty of homicide, illegal detention and other human rights violations. The two were stripped of their military rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Three co-defendants, including Roberto Viola, 61, who succeeded Videla as President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated...
...court's historic decision disappointed human rights activists, who had hoped for harsher sentences that would ease the pain suffered by families and friends of the estimated 9,000 people who disappeared during the dirty war. After Arslanian read the decision acquitting Galtieri and the others, Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, angrily donned a white kerchief embroidered with the human rights group's mournful motto, MAY THE DISAPPEARED APPEAR ALIVE. When De Bonafini refused to remove the offending garment, the judge ordered her to leave the courtroom. "I had no other...
Homebody. In Montclair, N.J., Coffing Melkin Arslanian was permitted to use his business address as his voting residence. He lives in a tree...
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