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| 2003-09-02 |
| EFL: Argentine ex-dictator General Reynaldo Bignone has admitted that 8,000 people were kidnapped and killed during the 1976-83 military regime, and said the church leadership had given its approval to torture practices. In an interview published today in Pagina 12, Bignone said French instructors had taught Argentina’s military how to kidnap and torture suspected opponents of the regime, and how to secretly execute them. Ah, those wacky French. The interview was secretly filmed by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin, who was working on a documentary. The regime’s brutal repression of opponents was modelled directly on the Battle of Algiers, he said. French instructors gave conferences and consultations on how to carry out the strategy. "It was a copy (of the battle): intelligence, gridding of territory divided into zones. The difference was that Algeria was a colony and ours was in our own country," he said. So I guess it’s OK to torture and kill if you are trying to keep a French colony supressed. Bignone is under arrest on charges of stealing babies from their parents during the bloody era. Bignone also said of the 8,000 who were kidnapped, then killed, some 1,500 had died during the government of Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, who was ousted by military coup in 1976. Third Army Division former commander Ramon Genaro Diaz Bessone implicitly acknowledged that the military dictatorship kidnapped 7,000 people, according to the newspaper, quoting a text obtained by the documentary. Not one of the brightest points in history. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Omar Torrejos in Panama. Two different families, but probably related somewhere! I was in Panama when Torrejos took over, BTW. He didn't like the people's choice for president. He did some good, some bad, but was never the bas**** Noriega was. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-2 11:58:10 PM |
| #5 Trujillo ran the Dominican Republic. Any relation to the one that snookered Jimmuah Catah out of the canal? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-9-2 8:02:01 PM |
| #4 Batista ran Cuba before Castro. Trujillo ran the Dominican Republic. FYI |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-2 3:32:10 PM |
| #3 Right Wing dictators usually are pikers. After all Turjillo(sp) in Cuba let Castro out of prison after what, 2 years when he was caught following an attack on a police station that killed several cops or solidiers. Think how much trouble one pistol round could of saved |
| Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-9-2 2:15:30 PM |
| #2 leftists claim 30,000. Truth is probably in the middle somewhere but still the junta were pikers compared to the communists. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-2 11:59:31 AM |
| #1 Argentine ex-dictator General Reynaldo Bignone has admitted that 8,000 people were kidnapped and killed during the 1976-83 military regime Only 8,000? Under the alternative, a communist regime, the body count would have been in the hundreds of thousands, not the mention the millions conscripted to performed forced labor in gulags. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-9-2 11:01:03 AM |