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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.
Horacio Verbitsky, OpenDemocracy.net, 28 July 2005, "Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war'" The Dirty War in Argentina – George Washington University's National Security Archive page on the Dirty War, featuring numerous recently declassified documents which clearly demonstrate Kissinger's knowledge and ...
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 ...
During the years of the Dirty War (the name used by the military junta in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor), military and security forces and right-wing death squads (the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, AAA, or Triple A) suppressed known and suspected political dissidents.
This is a list of wars involving the Argentine Republic and its predecessor states from the colonial period to present day. Argentine victory: in case of an international victory or just a bellic victory/inconclusive conflict with favorable ending. Argentine defeat: in the case of an international bellic defeat.
Plenty of WWII mentions already, so I will mention Argentina's "Dirty War" Among other things, a lot of babies were stolen from political opponents, and a lot are still being discovered today ...
Human rights activists state that in the aftermath of the coup and ensuing Dirty War, some 30,000 people, primarily young opponents of the military regime, were "disappeared" or killed. [24] Military men responsible for the killings often spared pregnant women for a time, keeping them in custody until they gave birth, before killing them and ...
The Argentine Navy during the Battle of Juncal, The battle saw Argentines capture 12 ships, and deny the Brazilians use of the Uruguay River for the rest of the Cisplatine War. After the Argentine independence from Spain, a history of military conscription emerged and that this tradition of mandatory military service began in 1896 with the ...