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...Argentine, I am proud of the verdict against General Jorge Videla and company. However, I believe that the sentences were very mild. This trial is unique and set a precedent that should be noted by the other dictators in Latin America. Juan M. Cutri Arcadia, Calif. Mickey in France...
...INDICTED. JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...
President Carlos Saul Menem wanted to "close a black chapter" in Argentina's history. But his decision last week to pardon ex-President Jorge Videla and half a dozen other leaders who had been jailed in 1986 for their role in Argentina's "dirty war" in the late 1970s only rekindled popular outrage. Nearly 50,000 citizens took to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest, and Bishop Jorge Novak called the measure a "humiliating defeat for the democratic system...
...armed forces that has led to four military uprisings since democracy was restored in 1983. The demonstrations signaled, however, that Argentine civilians are far from ready to forgive the military for having killed 9,000 of their countrymen and tortured thousands more in a campaign against leftists. But Videla remained unrepentant, calling for the "full vindication" of the army...
...three officers, along with scores of others who were being held on human rights charges. Camps, who was convicted last December, was not affected by the ruling, and will continue serving a 25-year sentence. Among the five former junta leaders already convicted are ex-President Jorge Rafael Videla and a onetime navy chief, Admiral Emilio Massera, both of whom are serving life terms...