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Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez []. The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for its period of state terrorism [12] [10] [13] in Argentina [14] [15] from 1974 to 1983.
Plaque in memory of the Pallottine Fathers in the Church of St. Sylvester in Rome. Forensic photo of the bodies of the Pallottine Fathers.. The San Patricio Church massacre was the mass murder of three priests and two seminarians of the Pallottine order on July 4, 1976, during the Dirty War, at St. Patrick's Church, located in the Belgrano neighborhood of the Buenos Aires, Argentina.
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations (see: Dirty War) performed during the ...
Regarding Argentina: U-977 and U-530 surrender to the Argentine Navy. Several nazis secretly protected by Argentina by the use of ratlines. Thousands of Argentine volunteers served with all three British armed services, particularly the Royal Air Force, as well as the Royal Canadian Air Force. [6] [7] Third Paraguayan Civil War (1947) Paraguay
The junta launched the Dirty War, a campaign of state terrorism against opponents involving torture, extrajudicial murder and systematic forced disappearances. Public opposition due to civil rights abuses and inability to solve the worsening economic crisis in Argentina caused the junta to invade the Falkland Islands in April 1982.
The Margarita Belén Massacre (Spanish: Masacre de Margarita Belén) took place during the Dirty War in Argentina.It involved the torture and execution of 22 Montoneros, [1] some of whom were killed after surrendering and laying down their weapons [2] near the town of Margarita Belén, Chaco Province, on 13 December 1976, in a joint operation of the Argentine Army and the Chaco Provincial Police.
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The history of human rights in Argentina is affected by the last civil-military dictatorship in the country (1976-1983) and its aftermath. The dictatorship is known in North America as the "Dirty War", a named coined by the dictatorship itself to justify their actions of State-sponsored terrorism against Argentine citizenry, which were backed by the United States as part of their planned ...