The last dictator of Argentina (1982-1983), Reynaldo Bignone, 85, was sentenced Thursday, April 14, to life imprisonment for violation of human rights by the federal court in San Martin, north of Buenos Aires. In 2010, Bignone had already been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for "unlawful deprivation of liberty and torture of political prisoners," facts that he committed during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
After the rout of the army against Great Britain during the Falklands War, Reynaldo Bignone ceded his position as first democratically elected president since the military regime, Raul Alfonsin in 1983. Since the annulment of amnesty laws in 2005 by former President Nestor Kirchner, the Argentine courts had sentenced more than 200 leaders of the dictatorship and 800 police and military are prosecuted.
According to human rights organizations of human rights, dictatorship was 30 000 dead or missing. The federal court in San Martin also sentenced Luis Patti, 59, former commissioner and mayor of Escobar (western outskirts of Buenos Aires), former General Santiago Omar Riveros and the ex-officer Martin Rodriguez to life imprisonment. 
After the rout of the army against Great Britain during the Falklands War, Reynaldo Bignone ceded his position as first democratically elected president since the military regime, Raul Alfonsin in 1983. Since the annulment of amnesty laws in 2005 by former President Nestor Kirchner, the Argentine courts had sentenced more than 200 leaders of the dictatorship and 800 police and military are prosecuted.
According to human rights organizations of human rights, dictatorship was 30 000 dead or missing. The federal court in San Martin also sentenced Luis Patti, 59, former commissioner and mayor of Escobar (western outskirts of Buenos Aires), former General Santiago Omar Riveros and the ex-officer Martin Rodriguez to life imprisonment.
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