The military regime's last dictator, Reynaldo Benito Bignone, was sentenced today to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity at the expense of 10 victims. With him were sentenced to life imprisonment also, the former military Santiago Omar Riveros and Martin Rodriguez and former assistant commissioner Luis Patti, while Juan Fernando Meneghini excomisario was sentenced to six years of house arrest.
Everyone should serve their sentences in ordinary prisons. Hours before the sentencing, Bignone, 83, still argued that civil justice is not "competent" to judge, and that his case should have gone to a military tribunal, according to Efe. The Federal Court 1 of the town of San MartÃn (Buenos Aires), which rendered the sentence is the same as in 2010 Bignone sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the clandestine detention center in Campo de Mayo.
In reading this bug was only present one of the damned, Meneghini. Patti, 57, the trial continued as usual from an ambulance parked next to property, due to a stroke he suffered last year. Buenos Aires court itself came representatives of human rights organizations, who received the sentence with applause.
"Today is a historic day for all Argentines well," summed Estela de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who participated in the lawsuit. Senior military leaders like General Videla and Admiral Massera were tried and sentenced immediately after the arrival of radical president Raul Alfonsin in 1983.
It was then pushed the main inquiry into the incident, the report called Nunca Mas, the National Commission on Disappeared Persons. However, the Law of Due Obedience and Punto Final, 1987, let out of jail hundreds of people involved in repression during the dictatorship (1976-1983). Argentina's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 2003 the rules.
The Argentine dictator Jorge Videla, for example, was sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment for the murder of 31 prisoners. In addition to addressing this process, Bignone is one of eight defendants in a trial that began last February by 35 cases of theft of babies during the dictatorship, which left 30,000 missing. 
Everyone should serve their sentences in ordinary prisons. Hours before the sentencing, Bignone, 83, still argued that civil justice is not "competent" to judge, and that his case should have gone to a military tribunal, according to Efe. The Federal Court 1 of the town of San MartÃn (Buenos Aires), which rendered the sentence is the same as in 2010 Bignone sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the clandestine detention center in Campo de Mayo.
In reading this bug was only present one of the damned, Meneghini. Patti, 57, the trial continued as usual from an ambulance parked next to property, due to a stroke he suffered last year. Buenos Aires court itself came representatives of human rights organizations, who received the sentence with applause.
"Today is a historic day for all Argentines well," summed Estela de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who participated in the lawsuit. Senior military leaders like General Videla and Admiral Massera were tried and sentenced immediately after the arrival of radical president Raul Alfonsin in 1983.
It was then pushed the main inquiry into the incident, the report called Nunca Mas, the National Commission on Disappeared Persons. However, the Law of Due Obedience and Punto Final, 1987, let out of jail hundreds of people involved in repression during the dictatorship (1976-1983). Argentina's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 2003 the rules.
The Argentine dictator Jorge Videla, for example, was sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment for the murder of 31 prisoners. In addition to addressing this process, Bignone is one of eight defendants in a trial that began last February by 35 cases of theft of babies during the dictatorship, which left 30,000 missing.
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