Report says Mercedes-Benz wasn't responsible for disappearances

Report says Mercedes-Benz wasn't responsible for disappearances during Argentina's 'dirty war.'

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STUTTGART, Germany – DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes-Benz subsidiary in Argentina bears no responsibility for the disappearances of 10 workers under the country's military dictatorship in 1976-77, outside investigators commissioned by the company concluded Monday.

But the report said one worker was endangered after security forces found out that the company suspected he was an alleged agitator. Information from company personnel files also made its way to the security service, the report said.

The 136-page report follows a decision last week by prosecutors in Nuremberg to drop a criminal investigation against a former executive at the plant outside Buenos Aires, Juan Tasselkraut.

The Mercedes-Benz workers who disappeared were among the victims of Argentina's "dirty war" against suspected leftists, when an estimated 9,000 dissidents were killed or vanished under the rule of a military junta from 1976 to 1983.

<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20031208-0602-germany-daimlerchrysler-dirtywar.html>

Speaking of Kissinger, Argentina, disappearances, here's an article written on Mercedes-Benz, written before the inquiry:

Union workers disappeared at Mercedes' Argentina plant

(snip) Shareholder activists force companies to look at business practices

Esteban Reimer, a union leader at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Argentina, had just put his daughter to bed when commandos banged on the door. After ransacking the apartment, they dragged Reimer away. That night, Jan. 5, 1977, was the last time his wife ever saw him.

He disappeared into the gulag of 340 secret detention centers, where Argentina's worst human-rights abuses were committed. Twenty years after the fall of the military junta, Reimer's wife, Maria Lujan, like many others, is still seeking answers.

But recently, they found an unexpected ally in their bid to uncover the truth: German shareholder activists who forced DaimlerChrysler, owner of Mercedes-Benz, to begin investigating whether plant managers had collaborated with the military in the disappearance of Reimer and 13 other workers.

Argentines are deeply divided over how to confront the legacy of the military junta that ruled during the country's seven-year "dirty war." Many would like to forget those dark times when 9,000 people disappeared. But others, especially those desperate to piece together the last days of family and friends, want a full account.
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http://forums.transnationale.org/viewtopic.php?p=3431

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You have to wonder, however, what the chances are they would ever admit participation in this unholy massive crime against humanity if they actually found evidence which hadn't been destroyed already.

With so many innocent people in Argentinian government, and businesses, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to find anyone who COULD be guilty of assisting thousands and thousands of union people, students, church activists, "leftists," etc. to vanish from the face of the earth.