Students take 5 ex repressors trial of Argentina's dictatorship

BUENOS AIRES, 20 A court in Buenos Aires on Thursday will resume the trial of five former oppressors accused of crimes against humanity for acts that occurred in the clandestine detention center known as Motor Orletti during the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). The hearings will take place until Friday morning in Federal Court number one which started these proceedings on 3 June.

More than 80 witnesses have testified about the events in Orletti Automotive facilities, where they held the opposition to military rule. In the case are accused former Colonel Reuben and former general Visuara Eduardo Cabanillas, plus former members of the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) Honorio Martínez Ruiz, Raul and Eduardo Guglielminetti Ruffo.

All have been accused by the prosecution of illegal deprivation of liberty, imposition of torture and murder at the expense of 65 victims, has stated on the information center of the judiciary in Argentina. Judges Adrian Grunberg, and Jorge Oscar Amirante Getta hear the arguments of both the prosecution and the defense before the start of the stage of replication in which both sides present their arguments.

In the last phase will be an opportunity for the accused to say their "last words" and then begin deliberations prior to sentencing. The secret facility operated in a two story building located in a suburb of Buenos Aires that was used as the name of the facade of "Motor Orletti." According to the prosecution, the Argentine Army and detained on their premises SIDE some 65 opponents who were victims of torture and killings.

At the start of the trial in June, the federal prosecutor Federico Delgado had described this place as an "enclave of terror that led a horde not runaway, but a calculated and planned that made them all (the prisoners) in death row, where there was culture of cruelty, corruption degrading power without limits.

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