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The death of former Argentine military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has been greeted with mixed feelings of relief and anguish.
He passed away in prison on Friday serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
For human rights groups the hope of finding the 30,000 ‘disappeared’ died along with him.
President of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto said, “We feel relieved but at the same time this weight because he didn’t speak or contribute to us knowing where those 30,000 people that we are looking for are or the whereabouts of the 400 grandchildren that the Grandmothers [of Plaza de Mayo] are still looking for.”
Last year Videla was also convicted of overseeing the theft of 400 babies allegedly taken from their parents whilst in detention centres. Over 100 have now been reunited with their biological families.
The names of the 30,000 who disappeared during the period known as the ‘Dirty War’, spell out part of the legacy of the man who ruled over what many deem the darkest period of Argentina’s history.
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The former dictator who led Argentina during its bloodiest period, Jorge Rafael Videla has died in prison aged 87.
Videla was jailed in 2010 for the deaths of 31 dissidents during the 1976 to 83 military dictatorship. Thousands of people ‘disappeared’ during this period known as the “Dirty War”.
Videla and two other military leaders staged a coup in 1976 when he became de facto president.
From that moment a campaign to rid the country of left-wing activists began. Right groups say up to 30,000 people were kidnapped and murdered .
Last year Videla was also convicted of overseeing the systematic theft of at least 400 babies from political prisoners.
With the eventual end of military rule and the introduction of democracy a monument to the victims was built, but Videla was never repentant.
His time in power had a lasting impact with the children taken from their mothers only now being reunited with lost families.
Despite being jailed Videla always said the crackdown he oversaw was the price Argentina had to pay in order to remain a republic.
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Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest days of its Dirty War dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the σtate, died on Friday at age 87.
Local media reported he died of natural causes while serving a sentence for human right crimes.
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Unbelievably no one was injured, police say the motorcyclist and pedestrian walked away with minor injuries.
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