In Argentina, a retired police commissioner has been sentenced to life in prison for murder, torture and kidnappings during Argentina’s “dirty war.” Miguel Etchecolatz ran secret prisons in Buenos Aires during his time as provincial police commissioner. During the military dictatorship that lasted from 1976 to 1983, up to 30,000 people were killed in the government’s dirty war. On Wednesday one of the Mothers of the Disappeared responded to the sentencing: “”The decision is one part but we still needs to know where my granddaughter is, where my son and my daughter-in-law and the 30,000 who disappeared are. That’s the true answer that we should await.”
Ex-Argentine Police Commander Sentenced to Life in Prison
HeadlineSep 21, 2006