Argentine ex-dictator denies Dirty War baby thefts and accuses mothers held in captivity

[Judi Lynn]

Argentine ex-dictator denies Dirty War baby thefts and accuses mothers held in captivity
DEBORA REY
Associated Press
5:25 p.m. EDT, June 26, 2012

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla denied Tuesday that his government stole babies from women who were detained and then executed during the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship.Videla, 86, was defiant as he testified during a trial on charges that his administration stole 34 babies from their mothers as they were held in torture centers, going so far as to blame the women.

"If the removal of an underage minor took place, it was not because of an implicit order . framed in a systematic plan and coming from the upper ranks of the armed forces during the years of the war against terrorism," Videla said. With his thick glasses, white hair and mustache, Videla looked more like a grandfather than the former strongman who was sentenced to life in prison in 2010 for kidnapping, torture and murder.

Videla continued: "All the pregnant ones referred to in the suit and by prosecutors were active militants of a mechanism of terror and many of them used their child embryos as human shields when they operated as fighters."

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A former U.S. diplomat testified earlier this year that U.S. officials knew Argentina's military regime was taking babies from jailed dissidents during the Dirty War and that it appeared to be a systematic effort at the time.

More:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworld/sns-bc-lt--argentina-videla-stolen-babies-20120626,0,2999361.story

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Jorge Rafael Videla



Videla toasting the owner of the country's largest newspaper, who's still running the same business, who completely whitewashed the entire bloodfeast upon the fascists' political enemies.[/center]

[EFerrari]

1. Scum.

There's nothing one can even say about someone like that. Beyond words.