Retired Argentine army major detained in disappearance of young French woman in 1976

[Judi Lynn]

Source: L. A. Times

Retired Argentine army major detained in disappearance of young French woman in 1976
By MAYRA PERTOSSI, Associated Press Writer
7:49 PM PST, November 3, 2008

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) _ Argentine police on Monday detained a retired army major accused in the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of a young French woman in 1976, during the nation's military dictatorship.

Jorge Antonio Olivera was detained on the street in Vicente Lopez, a northern Buenos Aires suburb, by federal police, according to a news release published Monday by the Human Rights Secretariat.
Olivera is accused in the "forced disappearance, kidnapping and torture" of French-Argentine citizen Marianne Erize on Oct. 15, 1976, when Olivera was a lieutenant in the 22nd Mountain Infantry Regiment, the secretariat said.

Erize was 22 when she disappeared, and although she wasn't politically active, she did volunteer at a parish church with leftist liberation theology priest Carlos Mugica, who was killed by ultra-right groups in May 1974.

After fleeing Buenos Aires following the priest's death, Erize was seized in the province of San Juan. Her body was never found.



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The tortured, murdered "leftist," Marianne Erize

[Democat]

1. Heartbreaking!

A life that wasn't lived. Hopefully her family can get some justice, though it won't undo what's been done. RIP

[legin]

2. maybe the way to keep her memory alive

is to learn the lessons, for future reference, about how she was killed.

"After fleeing Buenos Aires following the priest's death, Erize was seized in the province of San Juan"

The province of San Juan seems to be about 1000 miles from Buenos Aires, on the other side of the country. Someones beauracracy seems to be fairly efficient.

[legin]

3. So Carlos Mugica the priest and leader of the group

gets killed by the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (the ultra right group) and she gets arrested and killed by the military on the other side of the country 6 months later.

So therefore if you are a member of a group whose leader is killed by people that have 'plausible denailability' as far as the authorities of the country you are in are concerned, then the authorities are after you.

[gratuitous]

4. It took 32 years

I should think that some of the younger members of the Bush administration might read that with an eye on the actuarial tables and wonder if it's such a good idea to lead a healthy lifestyle. Cheney has his exit strategy all prepared.

[DBoon]

5. when people advocate voiding the Bill of RIghts to fight terrorists

remember this story.

This is where it leads.

This is not the heroic antics of a fictional Jack Bauer, it is thousands of lives destroyed by an unaccountable police state.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. ultra-right groups have not disappear, now work under the freedom foundations banners n/t

[Ghost Dog]

7. Yup.

Exorcise the School of the Americas.

[bluesmail]

8. Justice's wheels turn slowly and surely.

This is what I am waiting to read about Dick, George, Rice and the rest of the American War Crimes Cabal. History will not be kind. Me, I'll probably be gone. And finally at peace.