Uruguay Digs into Secret Massacre

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Prensa Latina

Uruguay Digs into Secret Massacre

Montevideo, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) Several former Uruguayan officers have been called to testify in the cause on the so-called second flight that transferred 20 political prisoners who later disappeared.

Former commanders of the Air force, Jose Pedro Malaguin (copilot in the clandestine flight) and Enrique Bonelli as well as Jose Araujo Umpierrez (coordinator of the transference) will testify either Thursday or Friday.
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Judge Charles and prosecutor Mirtha Guianze are collecting information on the movement of people that occurred on October 5, 1975 between Argentina and Uruguay of which there were no survivors.

It is estimated that there are about twenty left wing militants who were moved and later assassinated.

Family members of four detained and disappeared testified as well as journalists Gabriel Pereyra, Alvaro Afonso and Roger Rodriguez.



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[High Plains]

1. Operation Condor

This is but one example of cooperation among the dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of political dissidents. And Henry Kissinger was winking at it.