Remains of 15 dirty war victims found in Argentina

[Judi Lynn]

Remains of 15 dirty war victims found in Argentina
The Associated Press
Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:55 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:55 a.m.

Argentine judicial officials say anthropologists have discovered a common grave with the remains of at least 15 people apparently slain by a military dictatorship.

The Argentine judicial system reported in a news release that forensic anthropologists found the remains at what was a major clandestine detention center holding suspected dissidents during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Some of the victims had their hands tied and they appeared to have been shot.

The investigators are helping a judge probe activities at a military arsenal in the northern state of Tucuman during an army crackdown on leftist guerrillas.

More:
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20111214/API/1112141183

[Judi Lynn]

1. Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'dirty war' in Argentina

Published on Thursday, December 4, 2003 by the Miami Herald
Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'Dirty War'


by Daniel A. Grech

BUENOS AIRES - At the height of the Argentine military junta's bloody ''dirty war'' against leftists in the 1970s, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Argentine foreign minister that ''we would like you to succeed,'' a newly declassified U.S. document reveals.

The transcript of the meeting between Kissinger and Navy Adm. César Augusto Guzzetti in New York on Oct. 7, 1976, is the first documentary evidence that the Gerald Ford administration approved of the junta's harsh tactics, which led to the deaths or ''disappearance'' of some 30,000 people from 1975 to 1983.

The document is also certain to further complicate Kissinger's legacy, which has been questioned in recent years as new evidence has emerged on his connection to human-rights violations around the world -- including in Chile, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

~snip~
''This document is a devastating indictment of Kissinger's policy toward Latin America,'' said John Dinges, an assistant professor at Columbia Journalism School and author of The Condor Years, a book on military dictatorships in the Southern Cone due out in February. ``Kissinger actually encourages human-rights violations in full consciousness of what was going on.''

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1204-01.htm

[Capitalocracy]

2. "during an army crackdown on leftist guerrillas"

And college students. And charity workers. And nuns and priests. And anyone they felt like torturing and killing. And anyone even slightly to the left.

Why would they phrase this report that way?

[Judi Lynn]

3. The dirty war continues, it just takes different forms, right?

The very fact the major wire services work to conceal the actual nature of these filthy crimes done by the ruling right-wing military/industrial forces speaks volumes.



A statue offshore, commemorates missing
Argentinians during theDirty War. Their bodies
were sometimes hurled into the waters of
the River Plate. Photo: Peter Eisner

~snip~
From 1976 to 1983, the Argentinian military government practiced state terrorism. They dragged away supposed agitators and terrorists who most of the time where innocent teachers, students, union activists, philosophers, musicians, then tortured and killed them.

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/03/30/preserving-memories-of-terror-and-loss-in-argentina/10180/

From last May:

US move on Argentina dictatorship fails in Congress
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BUENOS AIRES: An effort to declassify US documents on Argentina’s dictatorship failed on Friday in the US Congress, disappointing rights activists in the Argentine capital who believe the secret files could help them identify young people stolen as babies by the military junta.

The amendment by Republican Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York, was rejected by a vote of 214-194. It would have compelled US intelligence agencies to declassify their files on the 1976-1983 dictatorship, which was closely monitored by US security and intelligence forces.

A similar amendment by Hinchey in 1999 resulted in the Chile declassification project under President Bill Clinton, which led to the publication of more than 24,000 documents that helped prosecute crimes against humanity committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Most of the US files on Argentina still remain secret, and some of those voting against the measure said it’s best they stay that way.

More:
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/4762bfeb-5aa8-4b22-aab0-d5a65d952d05.aspx

[Capitalocracy]

4. In the U.S. they've found less blatant (and less violent only as a side-effect) ways...

to marginalize dissent. But when they can no longer ignore you, they'll sick the police on you... and their pepper spray and batons and tear gas are NOT crowd control or law enforcement, they're corporal punishment with no due process for the crime of speaking your mind.

Since I left the U.S., I feel like I'm in Las Veredas de Saturno.