Ex-Head of Argentina Air Force Sentenced in 'Dirty War' Case
Source: Associated Press
A court in Argentina on Thursday sentenced the former head of the country's air force on Thursday to 25 years in prison for the abduction and torture of an activist couple during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
The court sentenced 90-year-old Omar Graffigna for abducting Patricia Roisinblit and Jose Manuel Perez Rojo in 1978.
Roisinblit was pregnant when she, Perez Rojo, and their 15-month-old daughter were taken to a clandestine detention center. The girl was handed over to his paternal grandmother, while the couple was forcibly disappeared.
The plaintiffs in the case included Patricia Roisinblit's mother, Rosa de Roisinblit, who is the vice president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group, and Guillermo Perez Roisinblit, the son Roisinblit gave birth to during detention. He was raised by Francisco Gomez, who has served time for stealing Perez when he was an infant.
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By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Sep 8, 2016, 3:55 PM ET
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)is an unindicted co-conspirator.
Veterans For Peace
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)The new fascist President hasn't managed to restore it, yet, to protect all these criminally insane right-wingers:
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Omar Graffigna
His victims whose lives he stole, after torture:
Jose Manuel Perez Rojo and Patricia Roisinblit were seized by the military on 6 October 1978 [/center]