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Justice (#2)

A visitor looks at pictures of Argentina's disappeared covering a wall of the the former Argentine Navy School of Mechanics.
Being brought to justices comes good in prosecuting those involved in all those people who "disappeared" or were simply murdered during the 1976-1983 military junta in Argentina.    The Sydney Morning Herald provides the background in "Argentina's Dirty War trial begins".
 
"A trial involving almost 800 cases of human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-1983 military junta is under way, chronicling the use of torture and murder during the dictatorship.
 
The trial in Buenos Aires, "was, is and will be the largest trial of crimes against humanity" in Argentina, said the rights lawyer Rodolfo Yanzon.

The trial, documenting 789 abuse cases, is the largest in the South American nation since 2003. It is being held in a packed Buenos Aires courtroom, presided over by Judge Daniel Obligado, as rights activists outside waved signs demanding justice be done.
 
The trial is expected to take about two years, and may bring in as many as 900 witnesses.

Among the accused, for the first time, are men who piloted "death flights" on which abducted opponents of the regime, or those thought to oppose it, were tossed alive from planes into the Rio de la Plata.

Some 30,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and killed in what became known as Argentina's "Dirty War," rights groups say. Victims included Montonero guerrillas, labour union leaders, students, leftist sympathisers and their relatives and friends.

The trial is part of an effort to investigate torture and crimes against humanity committed at the notorious ESMA Naval Mechanics School. Only a fraction of the estimated 5000 regime opponents survived being sent to ESMA."



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