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Argentina Tries Ex-Marine for Nearly 400 Crimes Committed at ESMA

  • June 28, 2023
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The trial in Buenos Aires began this Wednesday. trial of a former naval intelligence officeraccused of crimes against humanity committed against 398 people at the former Naval Mechanic

The trial in Buenos Aires began this Wednesday. trial of a former naval intelligence officeraccused of crimes against humanity committed against 398 people at the former Naval Mechanic School (ESMA) during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983).

ESMA V Trial Directed by the Federal Oral Court 5, transferred to Jorge Luis Guarroshen, who was a member of the Naval Intelligence Service and who remained the sole defendant after the death of Gerardo Enrique Ferrer, former head of ESMA Ceremonial Company B, who was about to be tried on 372 counts.

Guarrosena pursued as a necessary memberkidnapping, torture, torture with subsequent death, wrongful imprisonment resulting in death and misappropriation committed in ESMA.

The former Marine served in the Naval Intelligence Headquarters (ShVM) and the Naval Intelligence Headquarters (ShVM) of the General Staff of the Navy. worked in counterintelligence and as a link with the army intelligence headquarters and with the 601 battalion.

Photo: Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation

Survivors of ESMA, considered one of the main underground detention and torture centers during the regime, They recognized Guarroshen by the pseudonym “Raul”. and under the assumed name “Carlos Alberto Encina”.

The victims stated that saw the defendant at different times during the last dictatorship when he worked in the intelligence and operations areas of the task force that worked for ESMA.

This sixth oral trial for crimes against humanity committed at ESMAat the same time, more than 60 representatives of the repressive forces were convicted for the events, the victims of which were more than a thousand people.

Accepted in Argentina 16 oral tests so far, in different provinces, and according to official data, from 1985 to the present, 1,168 repressors have already been convicted in court for crimes against humanity.

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Argentina held a historic trial of juntas in 1985 but later published the Due Obedience and Total Stop Laws between 1986 and 1987 and The executive branch pardoned members of the military junta in 1990.

With the repeal in 2003 of the due obedience and full stop laws and the Supreme Court’s declaration of unconstitutionality in 2005, consolidated the process of reopening trials for crimes against humanity which started in 2006.

According to human rights organizations, about 30,000 people were without trial disappeared, tortured and thrown into the sea; conflicting numbers due to the contrast with official government figures (which record about 9,000 disappearances) and those who relativize the dictatorship.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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