BUENOS AIRES (AP) – Argentine justice cited to declare 18 exmilitares for alleged crimes against humanity committed against fellow soldiers while they were fighting in the Falkland Islands against Britain during the war of 1982.Es the first time that exmilitares different range – officers, noncommissioned officers and colonels – must give explanations before a judge by more than a hundred allegations of torture suffered by Argentine fighters in one of the less investigated episodes of the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). The federal judge Federico Calvete ruled that “for the purposes of advancing research and give defendants due participation to ensure the exercise of the right of defence at trial, it is summon pay statement” 18 of the accused in the case, according to the ruling he had access The Associated Press Friday.
Photo: AFP the judge argued that the research has allowed to obtain “substantial evidence that allow suspect that various people have participated in the Commission of crimes”. Falklands veterans have reported more than 100 cases of torture committed by his superiors during the armed conflict in the southern archipelago. From estaqueos – bound feet and hands face up in the open with temperatures below zero – and burials within wells of Earth mixed with ice, among other harassment. Also investigates the death of two conscripts by hunger. In check by the economic crisis and international complaints by thousands of dissidents disappeared, the regime played a last letter to remain in power with the invasion to the Falkland Islands, which Argentines claim as their own, in April 1982.
It was known that the soldiers sent to the archipelago did not have the necessary training or were provided with adequate equipment to face the winter in the South Atlantic. The war concluded in June of the same year with the Argentine surrender to the British military.
“In 2007, a group of ex-combatants filed a complaint to justify it to designate rights human during the war, but not committed by the British enemy, but by their own superiors.” A Pandora’s box is opened”, he said to the AP Ernesto Alonso, from the center of former combatants Falkland Islands of the city of La Plata. “This is parallel to other emblematic causes of the dictatorship, such as the ESMA,” said in reference to the investigations of the crimes against humanity committed in the main clandestine Center of torture and arrest of dissidents in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship. For Alonso crimes in Falklands remained hidden by a decision of the high command of the armed forces who preferred to ignore ex-combatants after the defeat. The cited exmilitares to testify had varying degrees and belonged to a regiment of the Argentine Province of Corrientes that fought in the isla Gran Malvina (West Falkland, as the English call).
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