Word: etchecolatz
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...afternoon in front of the Presidential Palace with other members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group demanding justice for the "disappeared," believes Lopez's disappearance was designed to dissuade others from testifying against the torturers. "Those who abducted Lopez know that the conviction of Etchecolatz is just the preview of more trials," she says. "They feel the noose tightening around their necks and are scared...
...defiance shown by Etchecolatz upon his conviction lends further credence to the suggestion that the disappearance of the witness was directly tied to the case. "I am not condemned, you have condemned yourselves," Etchecolatz told the court when he was sentenced. "It was a clear threat, coming as it did the day after Lopez disappeared," says Calvo...
...Federal Judge Carlos Rozanski, who sentenced Etchecolatz, has himself received death threats, along with 17 other court officials. "Yes, I'm worried," said the judge. "But I'm still working, it's part of being a judge in a case like this...
...letter threatened court officials that they will receive "real justice" if they continue handing out sentences. Calvo, who is a member of the Association of Former Detainees, which had helped bring Etchecolatz to justice, says her association receives constant threats. "When we get home from our meetings, we'll often find on our answering machines a recording of what we discussed there," says Calvo. "They tap our cell phones, using them as microphones to record our conversations...
...Despite the threats, the Etchecolatz conviction has offered new hope to relatives of the missing who had seen justice postponed over the two decades since the fall of the dictatorship. A handful of generals were incarcerated following the return to democracy in 1983, but judicial proceedings were blocked by amnesty laws that had been passed by Congress under the threat of a military uprising by disgruntled officers in 1986. By 1990, the few officers imprisoned before those amnesties took effect were freed by then President Carlos Menem, desp?te massive protest marches across Argentina. The amnesty laws that had protected human...