A lawyer representing the Federal Republic of Germany will, in late March, his argument in one of the trials for human rights violations during the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Germany asked for the conviction of those responsible for the kidnapping and death of one of its citizens, Elisabeth Käse-mann in 1977.
This is the first European state that has been presented as a plaintiff in lawsuits against officials of the Argentine military regime. In 2000, the Republic of Chile was the first foreign country to participate in a lawsuit by the assassination in Buenos Aires of Gen. Carlos Prats and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, in 1974, at the hands of the intelligence forces Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
"Our participation as plaintiffs in the trial of Käsemann is a first for universal justice," said Pablo Jacoby, Argentine lawyer representing Germany in this process. In the late nineties, after the pardon of then Argentine President Carlos Menem, of all those responsible for the dictatorship, relatives of German victims filed claims for 10 of them in the courts of his country.
In 2001, the German court requested the extradition of the largest (major) Pedro Durán Sáenz Army, who led the field for the detention and torture Vesuvius, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where Käsemann was abducted before being killed. The Argentine junta eliminated 100 Germans or descendants of Germans who are part of the total of 30,000 victims who denounce human rights organizations.
Since 2003, the then Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, drove for the nullity of the amnesty, a decision that was consecrated by the Supreme Court three years later. "As Durán Sáenz decided that he would be prosecuted and tried in Argentina, in November 2007, refer the complaint for the disappearance and murder of Käsemann" says May Mahnken, press chief of the German Embassy in Buenos Aires.
"The Federal Republic is committed to human rights worldwide and in Argentina can sue third countries. Therefore, we felt we introduce ourselves as complainants was translating the German interest. In addition, these trials for crimes against humanity are a way to keep memory, "says Mahnken.
This case can be an example for other countries disappeared in Argentina and whose courts can not judge in the absence of those responsible, according to Jacoby. One case is that of Spain, where they were born at least 76 victims of the dictatorship in Argentina. France, however, can be judged in absentia and has done against the ocean Alfredo Astiz for the kidnapping of two nuns.
Käsemann was 30 when she was kidnapped by the regime. This daughter of the prestigious university professor and Lutheran theologian Ernst Gelsenkirc Käsemann was born in 1947, but at the Free University of Berlin was where he made contact with Latin American socialist leaders. In 1968 he traveled throughout Latin America and finally settled in Buenos Aires.
There he pledged to Workers Power, a Trotskyist movement. Helped many Argentines received death threats from his political activism to leave his country and worked in the slums. Those were times of military rule (1966-1973), which were followed by three years of fragile democracy and, again, another dictatorship.
Käsemann embracing armed struggle ended, but curiously refused to kill. Finally she was kidnapped by the military. Nothing was heard from her for eight weeks until the scheme was given up for dead in a confrontation course. But the autopsy showed she died of shots at close range in the back.
His father had to pay $ 22,000 to an Argentine military to retrieve the body of his daughter. The attitude of Germany to the cases of disappearances in Argentina is not the same today as during the dictatorship. On trial for all crimes of Vesuvius, which began a year ago and will end in April, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer showed a documentary of his on Käsemann, which "exposed the criticism of the German Government was slow to react and was doing very good business with Argentina.
" Bayer then accused the German embassy officials of complicity for allegedly gave the information system that brought them relatives of the disappeared and recalled that the Government's Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982) sold frigates and Argentina's dictatorship submarines. COUNTRY asked the current embassy spokeswoman if Germany sought to remedy your complaint neglect of the past.
"We strive to have good contact with the families of missing persons. The complaint shows that Germany is on the side of the victims," Mahnken said. Durán Sáenz and his henchmen of Vesuvius are exposed to penalties of up to life imprisonment. 
This is the first European state that has been presented as a plaintiff in lawsuits against officials of the Argentine military regime. In 2000, the Republic of Chile was the first foreign country to participate in a lawsuit by the assassination in Buenos Aires of Gen. Carlos Prats and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, in 1974, at the hands of the intelligence forces Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
"Our participation as plaintiffs in the trial of Käsemann is a first for universal justice," said Pablo Jacoby, Argentine lawyer representing Germany in this process. In the late nineties, after the pardon of then Argentine President Carlos Menem, of all those responsible for the dictatorship, relatives of German victims filed claims for 10 of them in the courts of his country.
In 2001, the German court requested the extradition of the largest (major) Pedro Durán Sáenz Army, who led the field for the detention and torture Vesuvius, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where Käsemann was abducted before being killed. The Argentine junta eliminated 100 Germans or descendants of Germans who are part of the total of 30,000 victims who denounce human rights organizations.
Since 2003, the then Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, drove for the nullity of the amnesty, a decision that was consecrated by the Supreme Court three years later. "As Durán Sáenz decided that he would be prosecuted and tried in Argentina, in November 2007, refer the complaint for the disappearance and murder of Käsemann" says May Mahnken, press chief of the German Embassy in Buenos Aires.
"The Federal Republic is committed to human rights worldwide and in Argentina can sue third countries. Therefore, we felt we introduce ourselves as complainants was translating the German interest. In addition, these trials for crimes against humanity are a way to keep memory, "says Mahnken.
This case can be an example for other countries disappeared in Argentina and whose courts can not judge in the absence of those responsible, according to Jacoby. One case is that of Spain, where they were born at least 76 victims of the dictatorship in Argentina. France, however, can be judged in absentia and has done against the ocean Alfredo Astiz for the kidnapping of two nuns.
Käsemann was 30 when she was kidnapped by the regime. This daughter of the prestigious university professor and Lutheran theologian Ernst Gelsenkirc Käsemann was born in 1947, but at the Free University of Berlin was where he made contact with Latin American socialist leaders. In 1968 he traveled throughout Latin America and finally settled in Buenos Aires.
There he pledged to Workers Power, a Trotskyist movement. Helped many Argentines received death threats from his political activism to leave his country and worked in the slums. Those were times of military rule (1966-1973), which were followed by three years of fragile democracy and, again, another dictatorship.
Käsemann embracing armed struggle ended, but curiously refused to kill. Finally she was kidnapped by the military. Nothing was heard from her for eight weeks until the scheme was given up for dead in a confrontation course. But the autopsy showed she died of shots at close range in the back.
His father had to pay $ 22,000 to an Argentine military to retrieve the body of his daughter. The attitude of Germany to the cases of disappearances in Argentina is not the same today as during the dictatorship. On trial for all crimes of Vesuvius, which began a year ago and will end in April, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer showed a documentary of his on Käsemann, which "exposed the criticism of the German Government was slow to react and was doing very good business with Argentina.
" Bayer then accused the German embassy officials of complicity for allegedly gave the information system that brought them relatives of the disappeared and recalled that the Government's Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982) sold frigates and Argentina's dictatorship submarines. COUNTRY asked the current embassy spokeswoman if Germany sought to remedy your complaint neglect of the past.
"We strive to have good contact with the families of missing persons. The complaint shows that Germany is on the side of the victims," Mahnken said. Durán Sáenz and his henchmen of Vesuvius are exposed to penalties of up to life imprisonment.
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