The former head of the César Milani Army was acquitted in recent hours, in the case in which his alleged involvement in two cases of crimes against humanity in the province of La Rioja was investigated and the Tribunal ordered his “immediate freedom”.
This was settled by the Tribunal Oral de La Rioja, composed of judges Julián Falcucci, Jaime Díaz Gavier and Enrique Lilljedahl, in the case that investigated the abductions and tortures suffered by Pedro and Ramón Olivera in March 1977, when the military 141st Battalion of La Rioja.On her part Graciela Fernández Meijide, as a leading human rights activist and former deputy of the Nation, provided an interview for TN where she referred to the decision of the Justice. “The news surprised me. I hope to have more information when the basics are known. We have to see if the evidence was weak or if the witnesses did not convince the judges,” he said. In turn, in dialogue with The Nation he warned: “At this point there must be military members who must be saying, ‘This argument for this case serves me and I will use it as a backing party.”” Milani truly believes he’s someone from another world (…) No, sir. You are a person like any other, you were general of the Army and you got there for whatever reasons you were and, if you made mistakes, you can judge him like any other,” he opined. In this note:
Graciela Fernández Meijide
César Milani
