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| "Jail for the Torturer!" Photo: Clarin/AFP |
It’s hard to say now what
direction the protests will take, but they could turn out to be the U.S.
version of Argentina’s escraches. Someday members of our political elite may
finally have to answer for their crimes in front of a judge and a jury.
By David L. Wilson, MR
Online
June 29, 2018
Seven years of military
dictatorship in Argentina ended in 1983, but the regime’s officers remained a
powerful force. The newly formed democratic government tried to appease them by
passing two laws that granted almost total impunity for the junta’s many
crimes: the “disappearance” of as many as 30,000 people, systematic torture,
the dumping of live detainees from airplanes, and the practice of seizing the
children of murdered activists and handing them over to childless military
couples.
In the mid-1990s many of the
survivors began fighting back against the impunity.[...]
Read the full article:
https://mronline.org/2018/06/29/escraches-come-north-incivility-or-an-end-to-impunity/
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