ARGENTINA: NAVAL OFFICER TO STAND TRIAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION CHARGES "PLAZA DE MAYO" MOTHERS DEMAND CONTINUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TRIALS

Record ID: 657281

  • Title: ARGENTINA: NAVAL OFFICER TO STAND TRIAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION CHARGES "PLAZA DE MAYO" MOTHERS DEMAND CONTINUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TRIALS
  • Date: 4th December 1986
  • Summary: ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES SV demonstrators marching outside government building. 0.09 CU PULL BACK TO SV FROM photograph of missing person TO person holding picture sleeping on grass. 0.17
  • Embargoed: 19th December 1986 12:00
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  • Location: Argentina, Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAA1JP6YD2F9CF7BYE00N7COWZW
  • Story Text: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

    Argentina naval officer Alfredo Astiz, accused of human rights violations and murder during Argentina's "dirty war" during the years from 1976 to 1983, went on trial in Buenos Aires on December 4. Astiz, nickname the "Blond Archangel" was charged by Mr. Ragnar Hagelin, father of a 17-year-old Swedish girl, with he murder. Previously, Mr. Hagelin described in careful details how he had pieced together the evidence confirming his daughter, Ingrid's apparent kidnapping by Astiz and a Navy patrol, tracing the group to the Mechanics' School in Buenos Aires before the girl disappeared without trace. Lieutenant-Commander Astiz, captured by the British during the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands conflict in 1982 and then released, was acquitted on similar charges several months ago, but an appeal by Hagelin against the acquittal verdict resulted in Astiz's re-appearance in court on December 4. Meanwhile, the "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" have begun a "camp-in" in the Plaza, protesting against what they regard as government leniency in prosecuting human rights violators among the nations's military. Representatives of human rights groups indicated that at least nine thousand people "disappeared" during nine years of military rule, and the Plaza de Mayo mothers are demanding that the Alfonsin government continue to prosecute those accused of human crimes.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - HECTOR LOPEZ/ICARO PRODUCTIONS</strong>
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