Alfredo Astiz and 11 other former military and police officers have been sentenced to life in prison for crimes committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, a court announced Wednesday. Mr. Astiz, 59, nicknamed the "Blond Angel of Death," was convicted for his role in executing human rights activists in 1977; they were tortured at the Navy Mechanics School, known as ESMA, and then dropped from navy airplanes into the South Atlantic.
His victims included several founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group and two French nuns, the court found. Four other defendants received sentences of 18 to 25 years in prison. About 5,000 detainees passed through ESMA during the dictatorship, of whom more than 90 percent were killed, according to the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons.
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At least some areas are coming 'in from the cold'.... though it seems we here in the States have just gone in deeper and deeper into the illusion from which few seem to even want to escape. Hard to escape something/one until you see them, and then see them as they are. Going the judicial route has its benefits in rational analysis that the more emotive 'kill the dictator' route doesn't have, as another one usually pops up soon enough to replace the previous one, as the underlying conditions of society haven't changed enough to permit a different route to be taken.