Italian court jails 24 over South American «Operation Condor».

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Dictatorships of six countries conspired to kidnap and kill political opponents in 1970s.

Family members hold photos of people who disappeared during Operation Condor, in Santiago, Chile, in 2004. Photograph: Ian Salas/EPA
▼ An Italian court has sentenced 24 people to life in prison for their involvement in Operation Condor, in which the dictatorships of six South American countries conspired to kidnap and assassinate political opponents in each other’s territories.
The trial, the first of its kind in Europe, began in 2015 and focused on the responsibility of senior officials in the military dictatorships of Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentinafor the killing and disappearance of 43 people including 23 Italian citizens.
Those sentenced on Monday included Francisco Morales Bermúdez, who was president of Peru from 1975 to 1980, Juan Carlos Blanco, a former foreign minister in Uruguay, Pedro Espinoza Bravo, a former deputy intelligence chief in Chile, and Jorge Néstor Fernández Troccoli, a Uruguayan former naval intelligence officer.
Exactly how many people died as a result of the conspiracy is unknown, but prosecutors in South America and Italy provided evidence that at least 100 leftwing activists were killed in Argentina, including 45 Uruguayans, 22 Chileans, 15 Paraguayans and 13 Bolivians.
“Operation Condor spared no one,” said Francesca Lessa, a research fellow at Oxford University’s Latin American Centre. “Refugees and asylum seekers were especially targeted, while children – illegally detained with their parents – had their biological identity stolen and replaced by that of adoptive families.”
According to a database recording the crimes of the  coordinated regional repression, at least 496 people of 11 nationalities were kidnapped under the auspices of Operation Condor.
Declassified documents suggest some victims were drugged, their stomachs were slit open and they were dropp ed from  planes into the Atlantic Ocean. Other victims’ bodies were cemented into barrels and thrown into rivers.
Monday’s verdict was the result of years of pressure from the families of those who disappeared. “For decades, the victims’ relatives have been seeking justice,” Lessa said. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Rhett_Bassard

These condors read like bad birds of prey.
AND...
nothing pointed fingers at the US.
AND...AND...OMG...
Trump wasn't the ringleader.

asr335704

Interesting news. Historical decision by Italian court as this trial is first of a kind in the history of Europe.

Pedro_P

Rhett Bassard 9-7-2019 01:07 AM
These condors read like bad birds of prey.
AND...
nothing pointed fingers at the US.

The CIA was involved in that matter and in others, but when the same methods of terror and extermination used by our enemies are used by one, then we become one of them. But, on the other hand, there is also a Declaration of Human Rights, which most states of the world have signed, and in that sense, it is counterproductive for a State to violate the agreements it has signed.
Trump is a lost case, an almost schizophrenic mixture of narcissistic, mercantilist, fascist, nationalist and charlatan, with a dose of sadism... His terrible policies have led the USA to international ridicule, and even the US partners look with sarcasm and concern, the actions of Trump.
USA is not obliged to act with respect for Human Rights, however, Trump's immigration policies will be his tombstone, not today, but rather, tomorrow, when he stops being president, when he stops using to the USA as his personal toy.

Rhett_Bassard

asr335704 9-7-2019 05:13 AM
Interesting news. Historical decision by Italian court as this trial is first of a kind in the histo ...

Regarding trials of this kind (human rights) in the history of Europe, consider 1961 and...

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