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...President Raúl Alfonsín's first acts after his Dec. 10 inauguration was to decree that nine military junta members, including former Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, be brought before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Argentina's highest military court. In court-martial proceedings that began last week, they were accused of mass murder and torture of civilians. Alfonsin also signed a bill repealing an amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing military government that would have absolved the armed forces of responsibility for the atrocities of the "dirty...
...cases against the junta members are expected to take months, perhaps years. In the meantime, several prominent military figures are the targets of private suits in civilian courts. Among them...
...President Reynaldo Bignone, 55, leader of the last junta, who has been cited in two cases. One involves the disappearance of two conscripts at the Military Academy at San Martin while he was its director in 1976. The other, in which 1.5 officers have been named besides Bignone, concerns the 1978 disappearance of Alfredo Giorgi, a government technician...
...pass "summary judgment" on the accused officers. Alfonsín announced that seven left-wing terrorists active during the '70s would be tried by civil courts. He also fulfilled one of his most emotional campaign pledges: repeal of the so-called amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing junta to absolve the armed forces of their murderous excesses. At week's end Alfonsín appointed a 16-member commission to investigate the charges against the generals and admirals...
Alfonsin must also deal subtly with the armed forces. He has already pledged to repeal a law passed by the junta last September that effectively pardoned the military for any role in the "dirty war" of the 1970s, in which an estimated 6,000 people disappeared. But a full inquiry would alienate the generals, who might later look for reasons to mount a coup...