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Argentine Ex-Army Chief Gets Life Sentence in ‘Dirty War’ Crimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25...r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

Excerpt:

A court in Argentina sentenced a notorious former military leader to life in prison for atrocities committed in 1977 at a clandestine torture center used by the military dictatorship where only 17 of more than 2,200 political prisoners survived.

Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, the former commander of the regional Third Army Corps in Córdoba during the military dictatorship, oversaw the kidnapping, torture and murder of four activists who protested against the military government that lasted from 1976 to 1983. The atrocities occurred at La Perla detention center in Córdoba, the biggest in the province at the time.