Over 70 Argentine officers face trial for torturing conscripts in Malvinas

Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 1:00 am UTC

An Argentine federal judge considers the abuses allegedly suffered,—in over eighty cases—by Malvinas war veterans during the 1982 Malvinas war as “crimes against humanity” and therefore “imprescriptible”, according to reports in the Buenos Aires press ...

The case of abuses during the Malvinas war was presented in Rio Grande, in April 2007, sponsored by the Human Rights Under Secretary from the northern province of Corrientes who convinced several veterans (mostly former conscripts) to come forward and tell their stories of abuses and torture suffered to the hands of their officers.

The word spread and testimonies from almost a hundred veterans were added to the case, not only from Corrientes, but from other provinces including one from Buenos Aires for the alleged anti-Semitism abuses received by a Jewish religion soldier.

Last February another federal judge from Comodoro Rivadavia, Eva Parcio de Selemme established a “historic” milestone when she accepted that staking a solider to the ground was a crime against humanity and a war crime. This happened in 1982, with a conscript, but in a military garrison somewhere in Patagonia, two days before the victim was flown to the Falkland Islands ...

http://en.mercopress.com/2009/06/10/over-70-argentine-officers-face-trial-for-torturing-conscripts-in-malvinas

Who would have expected ANY government to treat its own soldiers like this as recently as the 1980's?

Hope they keep investigating until the get all this nonsense revealed and cleansed.