Reply #9: Argentinian Jailed for Throwing Prisoners from Plane

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Argentinian jailed for throwing prisoners from plane

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Wednesday April 20, 2005
The Guardian

An Argentinian former naval officer who threw prisoners, drugged and naked, to their death from planes was convicted of crimes against humanity and jailed for a total of 640 years by a Spanish court yesterday for his part in the "dirty war" against dissidents conducted by the Argentinian military regime in the 1970s.

Captain Adolfo Scilingo killed 30 leftwing prisoners, who were thrown out at 4,000 metres (13,000ft) above the Atlantic, on two flights.

The judgment, reached by three judges in the national court in Madrid, described how naval officers tortured victims with electric shocks which burned their flesh. The torture sessions were called "barbecues".

Judge José Ricardo de Prada said, delivering the judgment, said: "As a macabre joke they would make them dance to Brazilian music."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/argentina/story/0,11439,14638...