Saturday, May 7, 2011

Argentina .- The Argentine government requested life imprisonment for twelve repressive dictatorship of Videla

BUENOS AIRES, 7 May. The Argentine Government, through the Secretariat of Human Rights has called for life imprisonment - the maximum under the law of the country - to the former military officer Alfredo Astiz, Jorge Acosta and ten other members of "Task 3.3. 2 'School of Naval Mechanics (ESMA), the abduction and disappearance of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, in December 1977.

After two consecutive days of the allegation, the attorney representing the government, Martin Rico, has called for greater punishment under the Penal Code for twelve of the 17 defendants on trial for crimes against humanity committed in the detention center ESMA. Life imprisonment does not contemplate the possibility of parole after completion of a part of the sentence.

It has asked the same penalty, to meet in regular prisons, Antonio Pernías, Rauno Scheller, Juan Carlos Rolon, Julio César Coronel, Juan Carlos Fotea, Ricardo Cavallo, Ernesto Weber, Jorge Radice, Savio and Nestor Alberto Gonzalez. The lawsuit has applied for only twelve of the 85 crimes prosecuted at trial for the kidnapping and disappearance of so-called 'Group of Santa Cruz', the church's neighborhood of San Cristobal where the first group of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, as reported by news agency Telam Argentina.

In this operation, the mothers were kidnapped Azucena Villaflor, Mary Bianco and Esther Careaga, along with the French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet. Militants also kidnapped Angela Aguad Human Rights, Patricia Oviedo, Eduardo Orane, Raquel Bullit, José Fondevilla, Remo Horacio Berardo and Elbert.

The penalty sought for the crime of "direct co-authors" of the twelve aggravated unlawful deprivation of liberty for being committed by public officials and torments, and five murders. The latter correspond to group members whose bodies were found on beaches along the Atlantic coast and buried as NN - that is, unknown name - after being thrown into the sea in the so-called "death flights." The lawsuit has asked to be considered "crimes against humanity committed in the context of genocide" occurred in the country during the last dictatorship.

Another section of the trial, specific allegations, for the murder of the writer and journalist Rodolfo Walsh, committed the March 25, 1977.

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